The Old Hastings Mill Store was Vancouver’s first general store and post office and one of the few wooden buildings to survive the Great Fire of 1886. Built in 1865, it was moved by barge from its original site at Gastown in 1930 to the shores of Jericho Beach and then to its present home on Alma Street, at the corner of Point Grey Road. Starting in the 1940s, local people contributed a variety of historic artifacts, and today the house is an interesting small museum. Behind the pretty clapboard exterior, the museum’s exhibits include a range of Victorian artifacts such as a horse-drawn cab, several antique sewing machines, and an extensive collection of native artifacts including an impressive range of hand-woven baskets.