Point Grey Battery, Vancouver

[David Dunlop]

I read this week that the UBC Museum of Anthropology has finally been granted the money needed to fund a major expansion and upgrade of their fascilities.

Several years back, one or more groups in BC were trying to raise funds to restore the sole remaining intact 8" Coastal Gun Emplacement from the WW2 Point Grey Battery, which would have been the northernmost gun position. The museum was built over the two central gun emplacements and part of the southernmost position. I believe most of the underground galleries had survived and part of them were being used for museum storage.

Does anyone know if the Battery restoration project went dead in the water, as it appears any expansion of the museum would now wipe out all remaining traces of the wartime battery? Probably the only other remaining WW2 harbour coastal gun defences that survive in western Canada would be the ones up at Prince Rupert.

David