Vancouver Maritime Museum

This guide to the Vancouver Maritime Museum follows the Saint Roch, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner built in North Vancouver in 1928, and Sergeant Henry Larsen's 1940 attempt to sail her through the Northwest Passage, something no ship had done from the Pacific side. It covers the ice that twice closed in on the crew, the wood built to survive the squeeze, and the long voyage that followed. Step aboard and picture the cramped cabins where the crew waited out the polar dark.