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Interview with Laura de la Salle
I got the chance to interview Laura de la Salle, a teacher at Sherwood Park School in North Vancouver, who recently used the Landscapes of Injustice teaching resource pilot in her classroom with partner Sarah McCurdy. She shared with us their finalized module and how...
Landscapes of Injustice Fall 2018 Newsletter
Every December the Steering Committee of Landscapes of Injustice meets to discuss progress and to make plans. We’ve just completed that process with two exciting days at the Nikkei National Museum. The project has come a long way since our most recent Spring Institute...
Public Panel – Constitutional Stories: Legal Histories of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians
Public Panel - Constitutional Stories: Legal Histories of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Sunday, December 2, 2018 Free and open to the public Nikkei National Museum, main hall 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC Constitutions are stories...
JC Community presentations Hamilton and Toronto Cultural Centres
Landscapes of Injustice JC Community presentation series Hamilton and Toronto Ontario **Note slight change in time on Saturday** Saturday, November 10, 2018 11:30 – 2:30 pm Hamilton Canadian Japanese Cultural Centre Hampstead Dr. Hamilton Ontario Sunday, November 11,...
Canadian Race Relations Foundation Award of Excellence-Landscapes of Injustice
Congratulations to the Landscapes of Injustice Project on receiving an Award of Excellence from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation! The Awards of Excellence are the Foundation's "flagship program that recognizes and pays tribute to . . . excellence and innovation...
Landscapes of Injustice Newsletter Summer 2018
Click to read LoI Newsletter Summer 2018 web version Message from the Project Director Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross Late this summer Landscapes of Injustice received an unexpected invitation that I was personally very glad to accept. The President of the Victoria Nikkei...
Landscapes of Injustice Newsletter Spring 2018
Message from the Project Director Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross It has been a spring of accomplishment for Landscapes of Injustice! To put first the matter of greatest significance, our project passed, with much acclaim, its mid-term review by the Social Sciences and...
Reflection on Redress with Art Miki – Public Talk moderated by Audrey Kobayashi
Saturday, April 28, 2108 8:30-9:45 am University of Victoria MacLaurin Building David Lam Auditorium Free and open to the public Mr. Miki was president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians when he led the negotiations to achieve a just redress settlement...
Congratulations to Kara Isozaki – 2018 NAJC-LOI Hide Hyodo-Shimizu Research Scholarship recipient
The National Association of Japanese Canadians and Landscapes of Injustice is very pleased to announce that Kara Isozaki is the successful recipient of this year's research scholarship. Ms. Isozaki will work this summer at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural...
IDEAFEST – University of Victoria – Exposing the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians
Landscapes of Injustice Public Presentation Exposing the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s Hear UVic historian Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross describe how Japanese Canadians lost their homes, farms, businesses...
Landscapes of Injustice Newsletter Winter 2018
Message from the Project Director- Jordan Stanger-Ross What a time to be directing Landscapes of Injustice! As recipients of this newsletter (and especially members of the Collective) will know, we’ve been preparing for some time for the transition this spring...
Part 7 Kizuna
Photograph of the Ebisuzaki family, taken at Stanley Park in 1930 when the Ebisuzaki boys (Kentaro and Kojiro, that is) arrived in Vancouver. The photograph is from Nancy Morishita’s private collection, and here used with her permission. Part 7 of the series,...
Part 6 Negotiating the Dispossession
A family photo of the Ebisuzaki and Morishita families and workers of their store, early 1942, from Nancy Morishita's private collections. Part 6 of the series, Community Records and the Human Experiences of the Uprooting of Japanese Canadians, by Eiji Okawa and...
Part 5 The Dissolution of a Store
Part 5 of Community Records and the Human Experiences of the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians. By Eiji Okawa and Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective (eokawa.nikkeiplace@gmail.com) What happened to Japanese Canadian businesses that were seized and liquidated...
Part 4 1942
Part 4 of the series, Community Records and the Human Experiences of the Uprooting of Japanese Canadians, by Eiji Okawa and Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective “We were as uproarious as potatoes being washed in a tub of water” (oke no kuchi de arawareru imo no...
Part 3 Powell Town After the Outbreak of the Pacific War 1941-1942
Funeral Procession Jackson and Powell ca. 1927. Photo W.J Moore. Public Domain. A63536 Powell Town after the Outbreak of the Pacific War, 1941-1942, by Tsutae Sato Translated with preface by Eiji Okawa and Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective, part 3 of the...
Settler Colonialism and Japanese Canadian History
Laura Ishiguro, Nicole Yakashiro, and Will Archibald Report prepared for Landscapes of Injustice September 2017 I. Executive summary This report’s central contention is that we cannot fully understand, explain, and represent the history of Japanese Canadian people in...
LoI Public Lecture and Presentation Vancouver Maritime Museum January 14, 2018
Landscapes of Injustice Public Lecture and Presentation Vancouver Maritime Museum in association with the Lost Fleet Exhibition 1-3 pm Sunday, January 14, 2018 Landscapes of Injustice researchers will present a lecture and other research findings related to the forced...
Recording of Pamela Sugiman Lecture at the Royal BC Museum January 28, 2018
Japanese-Canadian fishing boasts seized at Annieville. BC Archives C-07293 Please click on this link for a full length recording of Pamela Sugiman's presentation. Recorded by Chorong Kim, edited by Dave Lang Acts of Kindness and Complicity: The silence of bystanders...
Japanese Problem -Live theatre presentation Victoria
a site responsive play by Universal Limited Special Victoria presentation - Monday, December 4, 2017 Queenswood/Arbutus Room Cadboro Commons, University of Victoria Reserve your tickets through Eventbrite. Free but registration needed....