The BC Heritage Sites program makes the "invisible visible." By funding interpretive projects, signage, and restorations at historic sites across British Columbia, including sites of internment, the JCLS ensures that ancestral places of the pre-war and wartime community are no longer under-recognized.
The Greenwood Nikkei Memorial Garden, which opened on July 20, 2025, is dedicated to the 1,200 Japanese Canadians who were forcibly uprooted from the west coast and sent to Greenwood, beginning on April 26, 1942. Greenwood was the first internment…
"Window to the Past," a new permanent exhibit in Sandon, BC, opened on July 19, 2025. Located on the renovated Burns Atherton building, this year-round accessible window display chronicles the history of Japanese Canadians interned in Sandon from 1942 to 1944.
Call for Photographs & Stories We are looking to the community to share family photos & stories relating to sports days, plays, oratorical contests, picnic outings, special events, Gakuyukai & Boshikai events that relate to the VJLS-JH both pre-war and…
Due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control, the opening of the Tashme Research & Archive Centre, scheduled for Sunday, September 14, has been postponed indefinitely until further notice.
The Bowen Island Museum & Archives is researching the history of Japanese Canadians on Nex̱wlélex̱wm (Bowen Island) and in the Átl’ka7tsem (Howe Sound) region. Our focus is on the early Japanese pioneers who settled in Canada, the thriving prewar communities they established in British Columbia, and the profound impacts of internment during WWII, followed by their forced relocation east of the Rockies after the war.
In May, openings in Maple Ridge, Galiano Island, and Port Edward, BC celebrated the first three of 29 BC Heritage Sites to reach completion, highlighting the breadth and diversity of the prewar communities that existed up and down the west coast.
BC Heritage Sites is a key program of Japanese Canadian Legacies, developed to invest in BC communities and assist the project teams in promoting public awareness of pre-war Japanese Canadian history through interpretive heritage projects at sites of ancestral communities…
Expressions of Interest – Strawberry Hill’s Early Japanese Canadians Submission Deadline: March 10, 2025 Artist Fee: $280,000 The City of Surrey invites Expressions of Interest (EOI) from professional artists or artist teams to create a heritage feature with integrated artworks…