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Sports Intake 2 Recipients Announced

The Japanese Canadian Legacies Society thanks the many Japanese Canadian Descendants, both athletes and coaches, who applied to the second and final intake of Sports. Congratulations to the 48 successful applicants listed below. Together with the funding recipients from Intake…

BC Redress: $100 million framework funds programs

Background The BC Redress Project was created under the umbrella of the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC), setting out to redress historical wrongs of past BC Governments, which permanently uprooted and displaced 22,000 coastal-living Japanese Canadians. On May 21,…

Legacy Society News

On May 21, 2022, BC Premier John Horgan announced the BC Government would be providing $100Million towards legacy initiatives honouring Japanese Canadians. These initiatives had been proposed as projects across six areas: 1) anti-racism [non-monetary]; 2) education; 3) monument; 4)…

In Gratitude

While acknowledging our elders past and present, we are grateful to the community members who continuously believed that this injustice should be redressed: The NAJC NEB and its chapters for ongoing continuous support and community-led work – against all odds.…

Japanese Canadian Legacies Society Created

On May 21, 2022, BC Premier John Horgan announced the BC Government would be providing $100Million towards legacy initiatives honouring Japanese Canadians. This comes as a result of BC Redress, which the NAJC has been leading and developing with community…


Japanese Canadian Legacies are initiatives that honour our elders past and present. We are grateful to be doing this work on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish peoples.