Broken Promises exhibit – stop by for a look
You’ll need to drop in a couple of times to take in this exhibit. The Musuem is accessed from the Strathroy Library.
Museum Strathroy-Caradoc, 34 Frank Street, Strathroy, Ontario, N7G 2R4
Museum: 519.245.0492
Learn about life for Japanese Canadians in Canada before war, the administration of their lives during and after war ends, and how legacies of dispossession continue to this day.
On loan from Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre in British Columbia from October 10, 2024 until February 15, 2025. Thank you to the Strathroy Middlesex Museum Foundation for their donation.
Grounded in research from Landscapes of Injustice – a 7 year multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, community engaged project, this exhibit explores the dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s. It illuminates the loss of home and the struggle for justice of one racially marginalized community. The story unfolds by following seven narrators.
The seven-year, multimillion-dollar research and publichistory project,LandscapesofInjustice, is led bythe University of Victoria (UVic) and involves 15 other partner institutions from across Canada:
- Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
- CanadianImmigration History Society
- Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC)
- Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia (LTSA)
- Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
- National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC)
- Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (NNMCC)
- OAH/JAAS Historians’ Collaborative Committee
- Royal British Columbia Museum
- Ryerson University
- Simon Fraser University
- University of Alberta
- University of Winnipeg
- Urban History Association
- Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall
The project has benefited from the contributions of a research collective consisting of over 100 members from universities, community organizations and museums. One of the largest humanities-based research projects in Canada today, it is based on the UVic campus at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives and brings together researchers in two faculties at UVic—humanities and social sciences. The exhibition showcases the personal histories of people from seven families out of the 22,000 displaced Canadians who wereinterned during the Second World War.