<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hello there!</span><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I want to extend an invitation to all nearby museums and their staff to our Open House we are hosting at HAMM next Thursday (6 June 2024) so you all will have an opportunity to visit HAMM before the summer tourist season keeps us too busy to visit each other’s facility.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The 6th of June is the 80th Anniversary of “Operation Torch”, more commonly known as D-Day. We felt that of all the days to host an after-hours opening, this anniversary date would make more sense as D-Day relates to the sinking of HMCS ALBERNI (also 80 years ago in August). Our main summer exhibit just opened up to the public about the sinking of Alberni and the sailors who were killed in the sinking. The research for this exhibit has been a 25-year project and we are thrilled to finally present it on this significant anniversary year.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The hours we will be open that day are 10 am - 8 pm. We are waiving our admission for the day. We will not be serving any kind of beverage (other than bottled water) but we will have James’ Anzac Biscuits. The biscuits have always been a favourite of visitors to HAMM during our Anzac Week (and Vancouver Island Anzac Day) in April of every year.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We will also hold a drawing for a Gift Shop door prize from all the visitors that come in on that day. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I hope that you and some of your summer staff can make it to see what HAMM has done since we moved from our huge space in Comox to our Tardis-like facility down the dark halls of the Courtenay Mall. </div><br><br><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">at your service,<br><br><br>Lewis Bartholomew<br>Founder & Executive Director<br><br>mrbarth@alberniproject.org<br><br>MUSEUM ADDRESS:<br>HMCS ALBERNI Museum and Memorial<br>MUSÉE DU NCSM ALBERNI<br>5-625 Cliffe Avenue<br>Courtenay BC<br>250-897-4611<br><br><br>ADMINISTRATION OFFICE:<br>The Alberni Project Society<br>TAP Mobile Exhibit Bookings<br>65 Salsbury Road<br>Courtenay, BC Canada V9N9L7<br>250-338-2720<br>BC Reg Society: S-0062206</div><div>Charitable Tax Number: 820205631RR0001<br><br>HMCS ALBERNI Memorial<br>www.alberniproject.org<br>www.facebook.com/thealberniproject<br>www.twitter.com/AlberniProject<br><a href="mailto:k103museum@alberniproject.org">k103museum@alberniproject.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>HAMM is a member of:</div><div>Small Museums Association of North America</div><div>Canadian Museums Association</div><div>British Columbia Museums Association</div><div>Vancouver Island Museums Association</div><div>Comox Valley Museum Association</div><div>Organization of Military Museums of Canada</div><div><br><br><br><i><b>Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high.<br>If ye break faith with us who die we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders Fields. </b></i><br><br> <br><span style="font-size: 9px;">Email is a non-secure form of communication and clients should not include any sensitive account information in any email to The Alberni Project. Le courriel n'est pas un mode de transmission securise et les clients doivent s'abstenir d'y inclure tout renseignement sensible sur leur compte dans toute communication electronique destinee a projet de Alberni. <br><br><br>With gratitude, we live and work within the Coast Salish and Salish Sea region - on the unceded traditional territories of K'omoks, ɬaʔamɩn gɩǰɛ (Tla’amin/ Sliammon), Homalco, We Wai Kai and We Wei Kum, and Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group - traditional keepers of these lands. Avec gratitude, nous vivons et travaillons dans la région des Salish de la côte et de la mer des Salish - sur les territoires traditionnels non cédés des K'omoks, ɬaʔamɩn gɩǰɛ (Tla'amin/ Sliammon), Homalco, We Wai Kai et We Wei Kum, et Hul'qumi. 'num Treaty Group - gardiens traditionnels de ces terres.</span><br><br><br><img src="cid:5A7B46EE-06F9-466D-9C19-BEFAC90FAE93" alt="WODfullpage copy.png"></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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