Project Activity
National Association of Japanese Canadians AGM and National Conference 2016 Calgary
National Association of Japanese Canadians 2016 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND NATIONAL CONFERENCE September 8-11, 2016 Commemoration Banquet September 10, 2016 Sheraton Suites Calgary Eau Claire, Calgary, Alberta The Calgary Japanese Community Association and the CJCA...
Eikichi Kagetsu Collection- Media coverage
Director|Curator Sherri Kajiwara and research archivist Linda Reid from the Nikkei National Museum (NNM) were travelled down to North Carolina on an archival mission after they were connected with Kay Kagetsu, daughter-in-law of the lumber baron Eikichi Kagets. There...
The story behind the Kagetsu collection
Jack and Kay Kagetsu stand with a friend. Kagetsu's youngest son, Jack researched his father's history over the course of a decade. Photo credit: Kaitlin Findlay with the Nikkei National Museum archival collection. Jack Kagetsu is responsible for amassing this...
The Kagetsu collection goes into the deep freeze
NNM archivist Linda Kawamoto Reid stands beside items from the newly acquired Kagetsu collection. The items are wrapped in plastic to avoid the spread of contaminants to other archival material. Photo credit: Kaitlin Findlay with the Nikkei National Museum archival...
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...
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 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...
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...
Uvic researchers find Vancouver played larger role in Japanese Canadian wartime dispossession. Georgia Straight Newspaper
Over 21,000 Japanese Canadians were forced to leave their homes and properties in Vancouver after the bombing of Pearl Harbour during the Second World War. (Photo credit: Tak Toyota/Library and Archives Canada) January 19, 2016 Georgia Straight newspaper – Craig...
Vancouver prompted WWII sell-off of Japanese-Canadian-owned-property. Globe and Mail
Japanese-Canadians are seen in a Vancouver internment camp in 1942. Many homes and businesses owned by internees were sold by the federal government. (Photo credit: City of Vancouver Archives) January 19, 2016 Globe and Mail Vancouver prompted WWII sell-off of...
Lessons from the Japanese Canadian internments: Policies built on fear won’t make us safer. Op-ed Globe and Mail
Children look in the window of a Japanese store in Vancouver, closed after the relocation of Japanese nationals in December 1942. (Jack Lindsay/City of Vancouver Archives) An op-ed from project members Jordan Stanger-Ross, Eric Adams and Laura Madokoro ran in the...
Uncovered documents reveal Vancouver’s role in historic sell-off of Japanese-Canadian property. Metro Vancouver News
A parade marches down Powell Street through Vancouver's Japantown in March 1937. (Photo credit: Vancouver Public Library) An interview by Matt Kieltyka, senior reporter for Metro Vancouver News with Jordan Stanger-Ross resulted in this article on January 17th....
City of Vancouver played roled in stripping war-era Japanese Canadians of homes, say professor. cbcnews.ca
Vivian Rygnestad’s parents were among the 22,000 Japanese-Canadians stripped of their rights and forced from their homes during the Second World War. (Photo credit: cbcnews) This story appeared on the cbcnews British Columbia website. City of Vancouver played role in...
City of Vancouver played a larger role in the forced sale of Japanese Canadian property than previously admitted. CBC Saturday’s Vancouver News
New research from the Landscapes of Injustice suggests that the City of Vancouver played a larger role in the forced sale of Japanese Canadian property than previously admitted. Community Council chairperson Vivian Rygnestad and project director Dr. Jordan...
Revisiting Critical GIS
Historical GIS Cluster chair Dr. Reuben Rose-Redwood's article coming out of Landscapes of Injustice entitled "Revisiting critical GIS" has just been published online in the journal, Environment and Planning A. "... we seek to broaden the scope of what a ‘social...
“Deeply shocked and saddened to hear about the sale of the property”
On January 28, 2016, Project Director Jordan Stanger-Ross presented a lecture based on the letters of protest written by Japanese Canadians in response to the forced sale of their property. This lecture was part of the Uvic Continuing Studies In Pursuit of Knowledge...
Oral History Workshop in Ottawa
"Landscapes of Injustice researcher Josh Labove shares Oral History best practices with the Ottawa Japanese Community Association in Ottawa, 2015. Photo credit: Sumi Aota." In December 2015, Landscapes of Injustice researcher Joshua Labove traveled to Ottawa to...