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
Opening October 10, 2024 at Museum Strathroy-Caradoc. L-R: Donna Pammer, Bryan Anygal, and Michelle Wright, museum curator.
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.
Glencoe at the Cenotaph: Park and gather before 10:30 a.m. Parade begins at 10:45 a.m. Main Street is closed. Organized by Royal Canadian Legion, Reg Lovel Branch, 219. Their facebook page
CJ Frederick is the guest speaker for the evening meal on November 11, 2024. Tickets available at the Reg Lovell Branch.
Newbury provides a Remembrance service for Beattie Manor November 7th at 11:00 a.m. and at Four Counties Hospital at 1:00 p.m.
November 10th we will be at Babcock at 10:00 a.m. and will assist the Glencoe branch at the Wardsville cenotaph at 11:00 a.m. On the 11th we will be at the cenotaph in Newbury for 11:00 and have a light lunch after our Service. Newbury Legion Group
Rev. Tom Wilson joined us live from the French Riviera to tell us about the role of Allied military chaplains and the stories of those who died in the Battle of Normandy from June 6, 1944 to August 25, 1944.
Tom told us about a the Allied Chaplains in the Battle of Normandy, including what is known about their lives before they joined the service and what is known about their deaths. Often there are conflicting stories of their heroism, and where their final resting places are.
The Revd Dr Tom Wilson has had an interest in World War Two military history since he was 12 years old. Rev. Tom Wilson is a local son, who for 12 years owned and managed the Why Not Shop in Glencoe and lived on a farm near Melbourne. He was ordained in the Anglican Church in Canada and served as Rector of a parish in southwestern Ontario.
In 2007, he had the chance to spend a year in France, on university exchange program with his wife, Dr Dawn Cornelio. While there he led some of Canadian students on a visit to Normandy where they held a graveside memorial service for Canadian Chaplain Walter Brown. Padre Brown’s murder led Revd Wilson to explore all the Allied Chaplains killed in the Battle of Normandy. After serving in the Scottish Episcopal (Anglican) Church for 5 years, Revd Wilson now is the Anglican Chaplain of St Raphael in southern France where he ministers to a multi-national English-speaking congregation.
Thanks for telling us these fascinating stories, Tom! Let’s do it again!
Tom: “I look back with fondness on my time in Glencoe and SW Ontario. I confess though, I do like the winter here on the French Riviera, as it is normally sunny and warm during the days, but the nights are cool.”
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