Highlights of the Last 50 Years

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1956 The Vancouver Aquarium opened its doors to a wave of visitors June 15, 1956.
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1964 Founding Director Murray Newman feeds Moby Doll, a fish at a net pen near Jericho beach.
(Larger crop available.) Brian Kent

1965 Education supervisor Mical Middaugh engages young minds as part of the Aquarium's first education programs.
Vancouver Aquarium

1971 A delighted Pierre Trudeau-then Prime Minister of Canada-feeds Skana, a herring.
Pierre Dow

1981 The Vancouver Aquarium celebrates its first 25 years.
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1983 Her majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the Graham Amazon Gallery, featuring crocodilians, sloths, snakes, birds, and more.
Tony Westman

1984 Renowned Haida artist Bill Reid's killer whale sculpture, "Chief of the Undersea World", is unveiled as a gift to the Aquarium.
John Seale

1984 Danger Bay, a CBC TV adventure story, is shot on location at the Vancouver Aquarium.
Finn Larsen

1989 Nyac, who still calls the Aquarium home, is rescued from the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Bob Herger

1995 Qila, the first beluga whale conceived in a Canadian aquarium, is born July 23, 1995.
Jeff Vinnick

1999 The Pacific Canada Pavilion opens featuring the Strait of Georgia Exhibit.
Hans Sipma Photography

2000 The BC Hydro Salmon Stream Project in Stanley Park opens, a demonstration stream where salmon return each year to spawn.
Danny Kent

2001 The Vancouver Aquarium decides to end the display of killer whales and moves Bjossa to SeaWorld in San Diego.
Jeff Vinnick

2002 Springer, an orphaned killer whale, is rehabilitated with the help of aquarium experts and is successfully reunited with her pod.
Peter Miles

2003 Renowned artist Robert Bateman joins the Aquarium for its TD Canada Trust Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, the second largest event of its kind in the world.
Margaret Butschler

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