News & Updates

BC Heritage Sites Survey – The Langham in Kaslo

BC Heritage Sites • December 5, 2024

The Langham Restoration and Museum modernization project is a comprehensive initiative aimed at preserving and enhancing the historical significance of The Langham, a cherished heritage site. The project encompasses interior renovations, much-needed building updates, and a refresh of the museum exhibits including modernization and content expansion.

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BC Heritage Sites Callout: Salt Spring Island

BC Heritage Sites • December 5, 2024

Are you a Japanese Canadian or descendant with family history related to Salt Spring Island? Would you be interested in contributing family histories, stories, or photographs to a signage project related to the Japanese Canadian history of Salt Spring Island? If so, we would like to hear from you. Our Project The Japanese Canadian Legacies […]

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Fall Update

All News • November 20, 2024

The Japanese Canadian Legacies Society heads into November overseeing a wide range of projects and initiatives across five legacy pillars: Community & Culture, Heritage Preservation, Monument, Seniors Health & Wellness, and Education. We provide this update as part of our responsibility and our promise to keep the community informed on our work every step of […]

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Calling All JC Legacies Arts Recipients:

Arts • November 14, 2024

The Art Gallery Committee of the Japanese Canadian Community Centre JCCC is inviting recipients of Arts funding from the JC Legacies Community Fund to submit your project for an opportunity to exhibit within our Art Gallery as a featured artist in a JCLS art show. We are a committee of dedicated volunteers supported by full-time […]

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City of Prince Rupert – Call for Photographs & Stories

BC Heritage Sites • October 7, 2024

The City of Prince Rupert and our community partners are conducting historical research into the Japanese Canadian community of Prince Rupert before and after their forced uprooting from our region. With support from the Japanese Canadian Legacies Fund, we are developing a memorial project in Mariners Park to provide a contemplative space that gives residents […]

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East Meets West – National Team Chosen for Monument Design

Monument • September 10, 2024

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 to return home to. After the war with Japan ended in 1945 many Japanese Canadians […]

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Japanese Canadian Boatbuilding Research Project

BC Heritage Sites • September 4, 2024

Introduction The City of Richmond is seeking a consultant to conduct historical research into the Japanese boat builders of Steveston. Project Background Starting in the 1880s, many of BC’s finest fishing boats were built in Nikkei-run boat yards. Their style of construction was clean and workmanship legendary. Japanese Canadian boat builders supplied the boats that […]

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Community Fund 2 Now Open

Community Fund • September 2, 2024

The initial $14 million Community Fund opened on May 5, 2023, addressing the enduring intergenerational impact that BC government actions of the 1940s had on the Japanese Canadian community. During the past 16 months over 1,100 grants have been allocated to individual, groups, and organizations across six project streams: community projects, arts, sports, scholarships, infrastructure, […]

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BC Heritage Sites List

BC Heritage Sites • July 12, 2024

BC Heritage Sites is a key program of Japanese Canadian Legacies, developed to assist local communities in British Columbia in promoting public awareness of pre-war Japanese Canadian history through interpretive heritage projects at sites of ancestral communities and other places of historical significance including sites of wartime incarceration. Following years of planning and deep, collaborative […]

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Intergenerational Wellness Intake 2 funding recipients announced

Community Fund • July 2, 2024

The Japanese Canadian Legacies Society is pleased to announce the results of the second intake of the Intergenerational Wellness stream of the Community Fund. Thank you to the many families, groups and organizations from across the country who applied in this round. We were deeply moved by the project applications, many of which spoke to […]

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Community Fund Showcase #1

Community Fund • June 11, 2024

The Community Fund serves Japanese Canadian individuals, groups and organizations across Canada through access to funding across six streams. We are currently serving nearly one thousand individual agreements, which will increase over time. As we move into the next phase of our work on the Community Fund, we are compiling documentation from grant recipients so […]

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Japanese Canadian Monument Park & Japanese Garden

Monument • May 17, 2024

The Province of British Columbia, in partnership with the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society is developing a Monument Park and Japanese Garden in Victoria, BC, the provincial capital.

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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.