Grounded in research from Landscapes of Injustice 鈥� a seven year multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, community engaged project, this exhibit explores the dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s. It illuminates the loss of home and the struggle for justice of one racially marginalized community.
The story unfolds by following seven narrators that include Eikichi Kagetsu of Fanny Bay and Hiroshi Okuda from Cumberland. Attendees can learn about life for Japanese Canadians in Canada before war, the administration of their lives during and after war ends, and how legacies of dispossession continue to this day.
The exhibit will be on display in the second-floor gallery until August.
The Courtenay and District Museum is located at 207 4th Street in downtown Courtenay. Admission is by donation. FMI: 250-334-0686.
