The Japanese Canadian Monument will be unveiled in Victoria with a nation-wide livestream on October 3 attended by our survivors. The Monument will be open to all beginning October 4 with a series of guided tours on October 4, 5,…
Witnesses Members of the local Japanese Canadian community took part in the ceremony as witnesses with Carmen Dick of Songhees First Nation listening.
By honouring our people, most of whom have been lost to time, we reconnect their names to the communities we once called home.
The monument is a key legacy project to permanently honour all 22,000 Japanese Canadians who were uprooted from their homes and communities in 1942, and stripped of all properties and possessions which were later sold, leaving little for these communities…
Joint Statement The Province of British Columbia, in partnership with the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society (JCLS) is developing a Monument Park and Japanese Garden in Victoria, BC, the provincial capital. The Monument Park will honour the lives of 22,000 internment…
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Monument | joint initiative with BC Government A monument in Victoria, the province’s Capitol, is being planned to honour all 22,000 Japanese Canadians who were forcibly uprooted and displaced from their BC coastal homes. The monument will be overseen by the…
Exciting progress is being made by the JC Monument Database team lead by University of Victoria’s Michael Abe who is developing the list of names of coastal living JCs, disambiguating 14,500 case files digitized through Landscapes of Injustice, plus researching…
The Monument pillar of Japanese Canadian Legacies is comprised of two components: the monument itself, and a database of names, which will be configured onto a monument wall. Japanese Canadian Legacy MonumentAs a lasting legacy, a monument will be built close…
