The Story of the Japanese Gardens on the Gorge Waterway

In 1904, the British Columbia Electric Railway Company purchased twenty acres on the Gorge Waterway from the Hudson’s Bay Company. The following year, Tramway Gorge Park opened with walkways, bridges, picnic tables, and most importantly, electric lights. “And [The BC...
Looking Back: Before Internment in Pitt Meadows

Looking Back: Before Internment in Pitt Meadows

The old Japanese Canadian Hall on Advent Road was once filled with hundreds of Japanese Canadians before their internment to Manitoba in 1942. — image credit: Contributed Looking Back By Mark Chen I saw the Japanese island of Hokkaido from the airplane window when my...

Royal BC Museum wins a 2015 BC Multicultural Award

The Province of BC recognizes the Royal BC Museum for its work highlighting multiculturalism VICTORIA, BC ­ BC’s human history is as complex, diverse and dynamic as its ecology, with people from virtually every region of the globe settling in and contributing to...