Category Education

Japanese Canadian Legacies is built on five funded pillars: Community & Culture, Seniors Health & Wellness, Monument, Education, and Heritage Preservation, with a focus on honouring our elders, past and present. While many initiatives provide direct support and recognition to Survivors, Education serves as an important connection between community and the broader public, who generally know little if anything of this history and the lessons it holds.

The theme of the 2026 OLA Super Conference, held January 29–30 in Toronto, was “We Persist.”
For the Japanese Canadian community, these words carry historical weight, echoing the endurance of the issei and nisei through wartime exile and internment and the long road to rebuilding that followed.

In early BC Redress consultations across the country, ‘education’ was identified by most community members as a key priority, critical to honouring and preserving the legacy of Japanese Canadians in BC. Education became one the key legacy pillars upon which JC Legacies was…