Project Activity
Using Oral History to Research Intergenerational Memories of Japanese Canadians’ Wartime Dispossession
By Chris Hopgood, Oral History Centre University of Winnipeg During the Second World War the Canadian government uprooted over 21,000 Japanese Canadians from the coast of British Columbia and began the forced sale of Japanese Canadian property. UWinnipeg’s Oral...
Landscapes of Injustice Branding
Roslyn Eskind and San Murata collaborated on the design of the Landscapes of Injustice brand. The cherry blossoms growing on the maple branches in the wind represents the Japanese Canadian community and the uprooting and dispossession of that community during the...
SSHRC announcement UVic media release
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA MEDIA RELEASE Aug. 27, 2014 Forced dispossession of Japanese Canadians subject of multi-partner project and exhibit Thousands of Canadians of Japanese ancestry on the west coast of Canada were systematically uprooted from their homes during the...
SSSHRC research grant announcement
Landscapes of Injustice is the recipient of a major federal grant! On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 Ed Holder, Minister of State for Science and Technology announced the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s $2.5 million grant over seven years for the...
First Project Meeting
On June 9-10 we held a small project meeting for the Executive Committee as well as team members who are employing students this summer. The overarching theme of the meeting was project integration. Our project has great opportunity to bring a variety of research...
BC Studies article by Project Director Jordan Stanger-Ross
Telling a Difficult Past: Kishizo Kimura's Memoir of Entanglement in Racist Policy Jordan Stanger-Ross BC Studies no. 181, Spring 2014 (pg: 39-62) http://www.bcstudies.com/node/4891 The article looks at the treatment of Japanese Canadians in British Columbia during...