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Broken Promises
On loan from the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre

 

Impounded vessels at Annieville Dyke; Fraser River, B.C.
Image courtesy of Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre.

Grounded in research from Landscapes of Injustice – a 7 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. 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.

Broken Promises runs until September 4th, 2024.

 A registration certificate, numbered 10333, issued to Hiroshi Okuda of 306 Jackson Avenue, Vancouver, on June 7, 1941.
Image courtesy of Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre.

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Uprooted
Curated by  Erin Stodola

Road camp workers at Yard Creek. Image courtesy of Sicamous & District Museum & Historical Society

During the Second World War nearly 22,000 Japanese Canadians were forcibly uprooted from their homes and livelihoods. They were sent to places they’d never been before not knowing when or if they would return. Some of these Canadians ended up near Salmon Arm. They made the best of their situation; sought employment, attended school, joined and formed sports teams, grew food, built homes, and gave birth. Some left as quickly as they came and others stayed.

Uprooted  runs until  September 15, 2025


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Face Value
Curated by  Erin Stodola


An unknown boy poses with a dog, circa 1920.
Image courtesy of the Salmon Arm Museum & Heritage Association. 1981.0017.0004.0065

Norman Sydney (Dick) was, among many things, an avid amateur photographer. Born in Bristol, England in 1897, Dick arrived in Salmon Arm in 1914, with hopes of starting an orchard. So-called “amateurs” show us a different perspective on the lives of the average person that studio, or “professional” photographers did not capture. This exhibition shows a collection of photographs Dick took when he was a teenager. The subjects show personality, emotion, style and action.

 

Face Value runs until September 27, 2024