OTB Exhibit at WRMA (White Rock Museum and Archives, Marine Drive):
The exhibition explores the development of White Rock as a Canadian city, but emphasizes little known local stories about several communities present in White Rock over the last 150 years. Among these stories, the exhibition explores the role of Japanese silk manufacture, and the impact it had on Great Northern Railway (GNR) which served White Rock. GNR was the leading ground transporter of raw silk during the 1920s. When the popularity of silk dropped off in the 1930s, the velocity of travel became an effective marketing tool for Great Northern to a White Rock audience.
This exhibition illustrates how silk is made through our “Stages of Silk” kiosk, using objects and historic images of Japanese silk manufacturing.
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