Salt Spring Island Museum

The front view of the Salt Spring Island Museum with John Woodward’s antique car.

This building was constructed as a dowry house for one of the daughters of Estalon Bittancourt and moved to this site by the Salt Spring Island Farmers’ Institute to become a museum depicting the time period of the house.
One of the 'dowry houses' that had been built in the 1884 by Estalon Bittancourt for his daughters, on his property at Vesuvius Bay, was moved to the Farmers' Institute property on Rainbow Road in Ganges on Salt Spring Island. A seniors group obtained a provincial grant to create a museum in this small, four roomed building.