Visiting The 1908 Rail Station Museum In Port Moody With

Описание: The POMO Museum, built-in 1908, was the second railway station built in Port Moody. The first was the 1882 Western Terminus Station which was demolished in 1961.

The museum is owned and operated by the Port Moody
Heritage Society.

The station, designed to be a live-in unit, consists of two floors and a basement. The main floor is accessible to the public as the main display area; the top floor is being used for administration and the basement is a collection storage and washrooms.

The first room that you will enter when you come visit the PoMo Museum is the Waiting Room. The Waiting Room is set up to resemble what waiting for a train would have looked like (the benches may even have been from the Vancouver station). Walking into the next room, you have the Telegraph Room. This room is where the station master would have sold tickets and send and receive messages. The next room over is the Mail Room where they would have received and sorted the mail. Here, you will see exhibits on the fur trade, the Salish artifacts, the Royal Engineers, and the CPR and the Chinese workers. As this was a live-in station, the station master and his family would have lived here full time. The Kitchen and the Parlour are set up in a 1930s style. Lastly, the large room is the Freight Room. It showcases our jail cell and exhibits about Port Moody’s Industry history.