Project Activity
Righting a Historical Wrong-Complicity and Reparation in the Case of the Esquimalt Japanese Tea Garden IdeaFest at Uvic
Saturday, March 9, 2019 10:00-12:00 pm David Lam Auditorium and Lobby MacLaurin Building A144, University of Victoria Free and open to the public Click here to watch the 3 minute promotional video Seven decades ago, riotous Victorians destroyed the country’s first...
Greg Robinson Lecture- Looking at Japanese North American confinement during WWII
Historian Greg Robinson (Université du Québec à Montréal) proposes that it is important to look internationally at events in the United States and Latin America to properly understand official policy of Japanese Canadian confinement, as well as its effect on those...
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...
Emerging Heritage Fair- Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall
1928-2018-2108 EMERGING HERITAGE FAIR Happy 90th Birthday! JAPANESE HALL SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 • 2018 Heritage Fair 1 – 4pm | Performances 7 – 9pm “Seeds of Justice, Seeds of Hope” Celebrating the past 90 years to leap 90 forward! Admission by donation....
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...
Building an archival website
By Lindsey Jacobson, Kara Isozaki, Gord Lyall In 2021, Landscapes of Injustice (LOI) will launch an online database of materials collected during the research phase of the project. Now, as LOI moves into its knowledge mobilization phase, the newly formed Archival...
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...
Dispossession Couldn’t Stop a 60-year Commercial Salmon Fishing Tradition for the Kadowaki Family
Submitted by Ron Kadowaki My father, Tadashi Kadowaki, along with my grandfather, Katsuki Kadowaki, were commercial salmon gillnet fishermen at North Pacific Cannery on the Skeena River before the Second World War. With the internment, their boats were confiscated 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...
My summer at the Nikkei National Museum (or, the life of the archives) Kaitlin Findlay
To get to the Nikkei National Museum, I took the skytrain and then city paths that led me around the back of the concrete building to its sun-filled atrium. Always a little late, I'd catch my breath after walking up the stairs to the Fuji room, where summer interns...
Part 2 Of Store and The Community
Ebisuzaki store's flyer, 1940. Morishita Family Collection. NNM 2011.79.3.316 Part two of the series, Community Records and the Human Experiences of the Uprooting of Japanese Canadians, by Eiji Okawa and Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective Of store and the...
“Beyond Sorry: Japanese Canadian Redress, Research and Historical Justice in the Age of Apology”
Lecture by Prof. Jordan Stanger-Ross, University of Victoria Monday, February 12, 2018 4:00-5:30pm (TELUS Centre 134) TELUS Centre Suite 201 University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2R3 Reception to follow. All are welcome. RSVP ptjc@ualberta.ca The Prince...
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...