Ucluelet Japanese Canadian History Pavilion Opening Ceremony
Category BC Heritage Sites
Job Posting – New Westminster Museum and Archives
The City of New Westminster Museum and Archives is looking to hire an experienced Interpretive Specialist to analyze research reports and produce content for site-specific interpretive panels about New Westminster’s historic Japanese Canadian community with a particular emphasis on the development of this community prior to the Second World War.
BC Heritage Sites May Openings
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.
Japanese Canadians in Sandon 山吞 (さんどん): Call for Stories & Photos
Greenwood Video
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 – Sandon, BC
"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.
Vancouver Japanese Language School: call for photographs & stories
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…
Postponed – Tashme Opening
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.
Bowen Island – Call for Photographs & Stories
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.
BC Heritage Sites Videos
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.