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Is Your Watch Radioactive?

  • Rainbow Creek Station Trans Canada Trail Burnaby, BC, V5C 1H6 Canada (map)

Did you know that in watches made between 1910 and 1960, Radium-226 paint was used for luminescence?

We’ll have a Geiger counter on hand to test your watches for radioactivity and talk about the history of this compelling period of watch making hard lessons learned.

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Annual General Meeting & Holiday Dinner

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Vancouver Maritime Museum Field Trip