The Power House at Stave Falls offers interactive games and historic displays that tell the story of how power helped build British Columbia.
Take a walk through the past into the future at the Power House at Stave Falls! Learn how electricity is made and see turbines and generators up close.
Historical artefacts from B.C. Electric at the Stave Falls Visitor Centre. Start your self-guided tour with a nine-minute video, "Rain", in our theatre. It introduces you to the life and times of the early 1900s. Play with experiments on the solar energy workbench in the "Alternative Energy" area. Go through the "Science of Electricity" area and test your knowledge with interactive displays that will "shock" you. Enter the "Generator Hall" and see the actual turbines and generators from 1912!
Go back in time in the Historic Gallery to when electricity was a vague promise for the future and TVs and computers were still a half-century away. Appreciate the hardships and effort to build the Power House and hear the stories of intolerable mosquitoes and no safety equipment. Experience the changes made to lifestyles as the years went by.
Write me an insightful summary of your learning and experience at Stave Falls including photos that you take when you are there.
Take a walk through the past into the future at the Power House at Stave Falls! Learn how electricity is made and see turbines and generators up close.
Historical artefacts from B.C. Electric at the Stave Falls Visitor Centre. Start your self-guided tour with a nine-minute video, "Rain", in our theatre. It introduces you to the life and times of the early 1900s. Play with experiments on the solar energy workbench in the "Alternative Energy" area. Go through the "Science of Electricity" area and test your knowledge with interactive displays that will "shock" you. Enter the "Generator Hall" and see the actual turbines and generators from 1912!
Go back in time in the Historic Gallery to when electricity was a vague promise for the future and TVs and computers were still a half-century away. Appreciate the hardships and effort to build the Power House and hear the stories of intolerable mosquitoes and no safety equipment. Experience the changes made to lifestyles as the years went by.
Write me an insightful summary of your learning and experience at Stave Falls including photos that you take when you are there.