Courtenay & District Museum

Be our guest to find out why the Comox Valley - past and present, is one of the most plentiful places on earth. Take a fossil tour and travel 80 million years back in time; browse our galleries to delve into the stories that make our history come alive. The winter of 1988 was a season of new beginnings for paleontology in the scenic Comox Valley and for the Courtenay Museum. Even though professional paleontologists and geologists had surveyed Vancouver Island many times throughout the past 125 years, it was the efforts of two local amateurs that would bring the region to the attention of the world with the discovery of the first Elasmosaur recorded in British Columbia - the first of its kind west of the Canadian Rockies.