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Blog Post “Not at all prepared for the winter: A family narrative of dispossession”
In a new project publication, RA Ariel Merriam and Project Director Jordan Stanger-Ross have been working with Japanese Canadians' letters of protest against the forced sale of their property during the 1940s. Using the letters of the Nagata family, Merriam and...
Pamela Sugiman appointed Dean of Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University
Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Sugiman on her appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University beginning July 1, 2016 for a 5 year term. Dr. Sugiman is also on the executive committee and chair of the Oral History Research Cluster on the Landscapes of...
Ariel Merriam’s thesis, “Our Appreciation for All your Goodness and Kindness”. Power, Rhetoric, and Property Relations in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians
Ariel Merriam is a graduating honours student in history at the University of Victoria, a Research Assistant on the Landscapes of Injustice project, and the author of “Our Appreciation for All your Goodness and Kindness”: Power, Rhetoric, and Property Relations in the...
Congratulations Eric Adams awarded a 2016-17 Killam Annual Professorship
The University of Alberta Faculty of Law is proud to congratulate our colleague, Associate Professor Eric Adams, for earning a 2016-17 Killam Professorship. Each year, the University of Alberta awards a maximum of eight Killam Professorships to academics who have...
Congratulations Nicole Yakashiro 2016 Recipient of the Hide Hyodo Shimizu Scholarship Award
The National Association of Japanese Canadians; the University of Victoria’s Landscapes of Injustice and the Hastings Park Foundation is pleased to announce that this year’s research scholarship recipient is Nicole Yakashiro. As a mixed race, fourth generation...
Telling a Difficult Past: Kishizo Kimura’s Memoirs now available online
“Telling a Difficult Past” Kishizo Kimura’s Memoir of Entanglement in Racist Policy” BC Studies, no 181, Spring 2014, Jordan Stanger-Ross, the 2015 winner of the Canadian Committee on Migration Ethnicity and Transnationalism Article Prize is now available online....
Canadian Historical Association conference
Landscapes of Injustice will present two panels at the Canadian Historical Association conference at the University of Calgary Tuesday May 31, 2016 Session 71 A Neighbourhood Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Canadian Enclave in East End Vancouver Vivian...
Memories of Internment – Public panel session- Friday, April 29, 2016 4:15 pm
Memories of the Dispossession: In a discussion moderated by CBC Radio On The Island host Gregor Craigie, three Community Council members of the Landscapes of Injustice research project who remember their own experiences of internment and dispossession (Art Miki, Tosh...
Global Connections Conference video
Held on Sept. 1-3, 2015 at the University of Victoria, the “Global Connections: Critical Holocaust Education in a Time of Transition” was a huge success, bringing together emerging and established scholars with poets, creative writers, students, Holocaust survivors...
Hide Hyodo Shimizu Scholarship – National Association of Japanese Canadians and Landscapes of Injustice
The National Association of Japanese Canadians and the Landscapes of Injustice Partnership Project are proud to jointly announce the: “HIDE HYODO-SHIMIZU RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP” Valued at $10,000, this research scholarship will be awarded to a student who was enrolled...
Canadian Japanese Mennonite Scholarship
The scholarship was created as a tangible symbol of co-operation between Canadian Japanese and Canadian Mennonites, subsequent to a formal apology that was offered to Canadian Japanese, by Mennonite Central Committee on behalf of Canadian Mennonites. The scholarship...
Kiri’s Piano – Link for free viewing
Please find attached the link to Kiri's Piano which you are free to download. https://vimeo.com/103871115 Password: KP2 If you would like a copy of the DVD, please contact the director, France Benoit directly at france@francebenoit.com Kiri's Piano - Directed by...
Call for Papers: Canadian History of Education Association
We live in an age of commemoration. Canada has spent millions to mark the bicentennials of the War of 1812 and the birth of inaugural Prime Minister Sir John A Macdonald. In 2017, more money will be spent to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Confederation....
Call for Papers: History, Memory, and Generations: German-Canadian Experiences from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
Call For Papers: History, Memory, and Generations: German-Canadian Experiences From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries Much of Canadian immigration historiography has focused on the first generation immigrants, including two important collections on German...
46 photos of life at a Japanese internment camp, taken by Ansel Adams
(Photo credit: Library of Congress Ansel Adams LC A3513M20) 46 Stunning Photos Of The Japanese Internment Taken By Ansel Adams http://read.bi/14bTMCk Brian Jones Sept. 1, 2013 Business Insider (Source: The Library Of Congress)
Summary of media coverage -Research findings Vancouver Town Planning Commission.
Here is a summary of the media coverage from the research findings on the Town Planning Commission of Vancouver. The research team at Landscapes of Injustice has uncovered new research that suggests that the City of Vancouver played a larger role in the forced sale of...
The Beloved Boat That Came Back After the War -Campbell River Mirror
The Soyokaze in her fishing days before the war. Photo courtesy of the Museum at Campbell River War stories are often told on Remembrance Day, but they are not always about heroes or significant battles. A war story can take place where no battles are fought, as on...
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...
NDP leader Tom Mulcair links Bill C-51 to property liquidation and internment to JCs in WWII
Tom Mulcair vows he will stay on as leader of NDP Evan Solomon Nov. 24, 2015 McLean's Magazine As he questions the Liberal plan to bring in 25,000 refugees, Mulcair tells Evan Solomon that Canada’s Japanese internment camps are like Nazi camps. Despite losing his...
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...