Canada's Next Great Save: Hope Station
のぞみ駅
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Historic Hope Station Rehabilitation Project: 'Gateway to our stories, Gateway to Hope'
By the Tashme Historical Society, in partnership with the District of Hope
Keep on voting everyday until February 22!
We truly appreciate the effort the community has leant so far in voting, sharing, and fighting to bring back the historic Hope Station.
There is a long road ahead yet – please consider spending a few minutes of your time to vote for Hope Station in the Canada's Next Great Save competition. Your support will help preserve the stories that lie within this historical site.
Hope Station does not just hold significance to the Japanese Canadian community, but also to the Chinese, Mexican, African Canadian, and Indigenous peoples who helped build these railways at great personal cost.
The Tashme Historical Society has developed a plan to rehabilitate the station into a vibrant storytelling hub with a museum & visitor centre, restaurant, and co-work office space: a “Gateway to our stories, a Gateway to hope”. のぞみ駅 (nozomi-eki) – ‘a station of hope’ in Japanese, will gift the feeling of belonging in space for stories untold.
Vote for Hope Station to be awarded the grand prize below – the funds would be used towards hiring heritage architects/consultants so the work may begin!
日系カナダ人にまつわる歴史の保存のために「Hope Station のぞみ駅」の応援をよろしくお願いします。戦時中に強制収容された時に大勢の日系人の通過点だったホープの駅舎を保存・修繕し、ミュージアム、ビジターセンター、レストラン、オフィスの複合施設を作るプロジェクトが立ち上がりました。
カナダトラストの寄金がどのプロジェクトにいくか一般投票で決められます。2月22日まで一日一回投票してください。
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Free online talk
The Yellowhead-Blue River Road Camps
By Leanne Sumiko Riding
Wednesday, February 1, 7pm PST
In 1942, almost 1700 issei were sent to the Yellowhead Blue River Highway Project road camps. What was this project, and what was it like? Leanne Sumiko Riding will share details from a recent archaeological study, and insights on resistance, issei self-expression, entertainment, and local response in the camps. Leanne is a descendent of Tashme internees, and grew up in Valemount, BC where the Yellowhead-Blue River Highway Project was located.
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マンガセール MANGA SALE
Tuesday to Saturday, February 4-18, 11am - 3pm
普段よりもお買い得なお値段でマンガを提供します。
常設の日系ブックストアにもお立ち寄りください。マンガセール期間中は週5日営業します。
Find Japanese and English manga at bargain prices in the tatami room on the second floor.
Check out our regular bookstore too. The Nikkei Japanese Bookstore will be open 5 days a week during the Manga Sale.
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Join us for Family Day
Saturday, February 18, 10AM-5PM
We're inviting you to a family friendly event where you can listen to Japanese storytelling, take photos with girl's and boy's day displays, play with Japanese toys and crafts, watch an anime movie, and more! You may even win a prize...
家族で遊びにきてね
ファミリーデー
２月18日 土曜日
午前10時～午後5時
入場無料
ご家族みんなでお楽しみいただけるイベントです。本の読み聞かせ、おひなさまや鯉のぼりと一緒に記念撮影、アニメ上映、日本文化の遊びを紹介します。プレゼントも当たるかも。
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Free online talk
Southern Alberta Okinawan Diaspora (1907-Present)
Through the Lens of Naoko Shimabukuro: A Kika Nisei Journey
By Darcy Tamayose
Wednesday, February 8, 5pm PST
Tamayose examines the kika nisei journey of Naoko Shimabukuro whose grandfather was one of the Okinawan migrants who came to settle in southern Alberta in 1907. Darcy Tamayose is a writer, graphic designer, and PhD student. Her recent short story collection, Ezra's Ghosts (NeWest), was finalist for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and is a CBC Books Best Canadian Fiction of 2022.
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On Being Yukiko
Graphic novel by Jeff Chiba Stearns and Lillian Michiko Blakey
Twelve-year-old Emma, who is Gosei & ‘quarter’ Japanese, learns about her Japanese roots through the story of her great-great grandmother Maki, a Japanese picture bride who journeyed to Canada at the turn of the 20th century.
Through Maki’s story of extreme perseverance and sacrifice, having been interned and then deported to Japan after WWII, Emma discovers a deeper connection to her Japanese Canadian identity, on being Yukiko.
✍️ All books are signed with a doodle by co-author and illustrator, Jeff Chiba Stearns.
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Check out two recent publications announced by the CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH
Daffodils and Dispossession: Nikkei Settlers, White Possession, and Settler Colonial Property in Bradner, BC, 1914–51
Nicole Yakashiro, an Institute of Asian Research fellow at the Center for Japanese Research, published a peer reviewed article in the BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, which explores forced sales of property, namely daffodil bulbs and farms, owned by Nikkei farmers before 1943 in the rural community of Bradner, British Columbia.
Nicole's article was also awarded the BC Studies Prize in 2021, an annual prize to the author of the best paper published in the journal each calendar year. The prize, funded by donations, is intended to encourage and celebrate high-quality work on British Columbia, regardless of topic or discipline.
Please read the article HERE.
"Threads of a Past Life": Kimono in the Lives of Japanese Canadian Women
Bailey Irene Midori Hoy, an Institute of Asian Research fellow at the Center for Japanese Research, recently published a peer reviewed article in the Journal of the Asia-Pacific World which explores the kimono as a source of cultural knowledge and identity amongst Nikkei women in Canada.
Please read the article HERE.
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The Vancouver Coins, Stamps, and Collectibles Show
Presented by the North Shore Numismatic Society
Sat, Feb 4 from 9:30AM - 3:30PM
Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre
40+ tables of coins, stamps and collectables. Buy, sell, and trade! There will be dealers in Canadian coins, world coins, ancient coins, stamps, covers, postcards, medals, tokens, bank notes, and more.
Everyone is welcome. Regular admission is $3. FREE for ages 16 and under if accompanied by an adult.
コインショーが日系センターに戻ってきました。ぜひお立ち寄りください。
Check out the North Shore Numismatic Society's website here for more details.
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