Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre

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Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre (formerly the Bamfield Marine Station) is a marine research station established in 1972, located in Bamfield, Barkley Sound, British Columbia and run by the University of Victoria, the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta, and the University of Calgary. The centre hosts numerous public education programs in marine related science. BC Field Trips organizes many instructional and educational programs for school-aged children at the centre.

The centre also runs courses for university students during the summer (May to late August or early September) and during the fall (September to mid-December) through their affiliated universities. The centre is housed in the original building used as the western terminus of the British Empire's worldwide undersea cable called the All Red Line. Originally the site of the Pacific Cable Board (PCB) Cable Station, which served as the eastern terminus of the trans-Pacific telegraph cable linking Canada to Fanning Island (1,600 kilometres south of Hawaii).

The telegraph cable operated from 1901 to 1959. From 1969 to 1980, the Bamfield Marine Station was part of the British Columbia...