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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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  • 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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  • Chemainus Mural – Call for Artists

    BC Heritage Sites • May 13, 2024

    Chemainus Festival of Murals Society Confidential Call for Artists – Japanese Canadian Legacies Project The position has been filled – thank you to all who applied Project description This unique and unnamed installation contains a mural plus other elements. It will join other murals or installations in our Outdoor Art Gallery. Artists should submit an […]

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  • Intergenerational Wellness and Sports Deadlines

    Community Fund • May 10, 2024

    Applications for Intake 2 of Intergenerational Wellness and Sports are closing soon. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSWith the second intake of Intergeneration Wellness applications due to close on May 20, we have put together a Q&A to help address questions families may have about what can be funded and how to get help with your applications. Q: […]

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  • Intergenerational Wellness Application Deadline May 20

    Community Fund • April 30, 2024

    QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSWith the second intake of Intergeneration Wellness applications due to close on May 20, we have put together a Q&A to help address questions families may have about what can be funded and how to get help with your applications. Q: What is Family Sharing & Healing, and who can apply? A: Family Sharing & […]

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  • Community Fund Arts Recipients Announced

    Arts • April 23, 2024

    The Japanese Canadian Legacies Society is pleased to announce the results of the Community Fund Arts stream. We were extremely gratified by the interest shown across the country and the broad range of applications we received across many disciplines. We thank the artists – all of them Descendants – and their collaborators for their thoughtfulness, care, and creativity in putting together their applications.

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  • Intergenerational Wellness & Sports Now Open For Second Intakes

    Community & Culture • April 22, 2024

    As an original program subset of seniors health and wellness, IG Wellness was first championed by Dr. Karen Kobayashi to the BC Government in 2021. Karen did not live to see the results of her advocacy work. In her honour, and in honour of our elders past and present, we continue this work.

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  • BC Redress: Confronting Race, Economics, and Power

    JCLS News • April 7, 2024

    “The Government of British Columbia acknowledges the hardships and trauma people suffered because of government inaction and action before, during and after the war. We know that healing the wounds of the past is a long process. Across government and together with our partners, we are focused on honouring the diversity and contributions of all […]

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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.