by Admin | Jan 20, 2015 | Project Activity
Landscapes of Injustice: Preliminary Returns of Partnered Research When the government uprooted 22,000 Japanese Canadians from coastal British Columbia, it also began the forced sale of their property, a major policy in its own right. Because of the dispossession,... 
by Admin | Jan 14, 2015 | Project Activity
If you were unable to attend the Southin Lecture with Jordan Stanger-Ross, here is a link to the presentation courtesy of UBC Law. http://mediasitemob1.mediagroup.ubc.ca/Mediasite/Play/180b319815e94db59ce3cdc9d7c56c8c1d Who forced the sale of Japanese-Canadian-owned... 
by Admin | Dec 15, 2014 | News
Hungarian Jews Rescued by Carl Lutz (1944) Are you one of the Hungarian Jews who were sheltered in safe houses and rescued by Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz in Budapest (1944)? Charlotte Schalli̩, Associate Professor РCo-Director of the European Studies Program at... 
by Admin | Dec 10, 2014 | Project Activity
Submitted by Esther Rzeplinski From October 22-25 I attended the annual conference of the BC Museums Association in Penticton, BC. The theme of this year’s conference was “The Third Space — Re-imagining our Cultural Landscape.” According to... 
by Admin | Dec 3, 2014 | Touched by Dispossession
By Donna Buck A few years ago I had sent away for the government’s archived records with regards to my Grandfather, Taketeru Takarabe and the sad story of trust, betrayal and dispossession as all Japanese Canadians of his time endured. I had often thought it would be...