by Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | News, Project Activity
Broken Promises Museum exhibit Broken Promises the Landscapes of Injustice Museum Exhibit Yasmin Amaratunga Railton, PhD Jack Lindsay. City of Vancouver Archives, 1184-1537 The Broken Promises museum exhibit is the capstone output of the Landscapes of Injustice... 
by Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Project Activity, Touched by Dispossession
Claim series 10 Laura Saimoto 9606 meeting my ojiisan 9609: meeting my ojii-san (granddad) Laura Saimoto When I first opened my grandfather’s case file (about 500 pages) from the Office of the Custodian, there was a handwritten number: 9609. What did this mean? ... 
by Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Project Activity, Touched by Dispossession
Claim series 9 Michael Abe Preserve-d In History Landscapes of Injustice Claim #1 Killing of Home Here is an entry in the series on the four claims that is food-related. The forced uprooting and dispossession of Japanese Canadians during the 1940s destroyed a... 
by Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Project Activity, Touched by Dispossession
In our continuing series on the Four Claims, this story follows the provenance of a small but important piano. Claim series 8 Michael Abe Without a Trace Claim #1 Killing of Home Without A Trace By Michael Abe With the invention of the incandescent light bulb in the... 
by Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Project Activity, Touched by Dispossession
Claim series 7 Kaitlin Findlay George Tamaki Continuing in our series of short essays relating to the four claims of Landscapes of Injustice. This essay explores claim # 3: Reasoning Wrong. In the 1940s, officials found ways to justify their actions. While racism was... 
by Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Project Activity, Touched by Dispossession
Claim #4 Dispossession is Permanent. The internment era was far too long-seven years, most of them after WWII had ended. But dispossession lasts forever. The lands, possessions, and opportunities lost can never be fully restored. Here is a submission by Project...