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Japanese Exclusion, Labour & Environment in the BC Salmon Fisheries, 1900-1930
Ben Bryce and Hailey Massingham Lecture Monday, October 28, 2019 Sedgewick Building Room C168 Uvic 3 pm Free and open to the public Between 1900 and 1930, fishermen, cannery workers, investors,fi sheries offi cials, and federal commissioners in British Columbiaknew...
Coquitlam Heritage at Mackin House – LOI presentation
Coquitlam Heritage at Mackin House 1116 Brunette Ave | Coquitlam BC | V3K 1G2 604-516-6151 www.coquitlamheritage.ca Landscapes of Injustice presentation 1:00-1:15 pm Jordan: Opening remarks, overview, update 1:20 pm-1:30 pm Kaitlin:...
Landscapes of Injustice Summer 2019 Newsletter
To read the entire newsletter, click this link Landscapes of Injustice Summer 2019 Newsletter Message from the Project Director, Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross Look up! Landscapes of Injustice has a new logo. We decided to refresh our look this summer, just in time for our...
Landscapes of Injustice Spring 2019 Newsletter
To read the newsletter, click this link Landscapes of Injustice Spring 2019 Newsletter Message from the Project Director, Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross A New Perspective on the Internment Era Four years of Landscapes of Injustice research culminated this April at the Spring...
Primary Source Cache: Records of the Forced Uprooting, Internment, Dispossession, and Exile of Japanese Canadians
This cache of primary-source materials was selected from the Landscapes of Injustice research database. The materials reflect moments in the history of the forced uprooting, internment, dispossession, and exile of Japanese Canadians. They are not meant to provide a...
Landscapes of Injustice Winter 2019 Newsletter
To read the newsletter, click this link Landscapes of Injustice Winter Spring 2019 Newsletter Message from the Project Director, Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross It was my great pleasure this month to submit to McGill University Press a weighty book manuscript: the summative...
Exhibit Launch Event: The Lost Fleet – Hosted by the Maritime Museum
The Lost Fleet looks at the world of the Japanese-Canadian fishermen in BC and how deep-seated racism played a major role in the seizure, and sale, of Japanese-Canadian property and the internment of an entire people. This special event explores the legacy of these...
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 Centre...
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...