Heritage Preservation

$14.5 Million

The Heritage package totals $14.5Million. This total was arrived at by surveying and aggregating funding needs for the establishment and maintenance of important community heritage sites in BC.

$10 Million BC Heritage Sites Fund will include the further project planning of: Pitt Meadows/Maple Ridge; Surrey; Hastings Park; Miyazaki House; VJLS; Powell Street; Nanaimo; Cumberland; four Gulf Islands; Ucluelet; Prince Rupert; gardens & cemeteries. In addition to large projects, a second tier of smaller heritage sites projects will be considered for funding. Project guidelines and planning documents will be developed through February 2023.

$3.5 Million fund for the NNMCC’s Digital Database Hub and Heritage Portal, which will benefit Japanese Canadians across Canada, will be initiated in the next two months.

$1 Million fund to the Village of New Denver for maintenance and operations of the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre will be initiated in the next two months.

BC Heritage Sites

  • BC Heritage Sites: Ocean Falls Visit

    BC Heritage Sites • December 5, 2023

    In November, Linda and Lane visited Ocean Falls, an isolated former pulp and paper mill town located at the head of Cousins Inlet at the west end of Dean Channel, just west of Bella Coola. Ocean Falls has historic and cultural value for the Japanese Canadian community which represented a significant part of the pulp […]

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  • BC Heritage Sites: Northern BC Visit

    BC Heritage Sites • December 5, 2023

    The North Pacific Cannery emerged as a promising collaboration site, boasting National historical significance and designated spaces for telling a fuller story of JC history of the surrounding areas of the Nass & Skeena Rivers. Prince Rupert Archives revealed ledger pages listing Japanese Canadians who worked at the canneries.

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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.