Broken Promises
Date:
Thu, Apr 10th, 2025 to Thu, Jun 19th, 2025Time:
Description:
Can you imagine having your home, possessions, and freedom taken away? In 1942, the Canadian government forcibly removed Japanese Canadians from British Columbia’s coast. Families boarded trains with only what they could carry, trusting officials who promised to safeguard their belongings. Instead, Japanese Canadians were dispossessed – everything they left behind was stolen or sold.
Broken Promises is the first travelling exhibition to explore the dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s. It illuminates the loss of home and the struggle for justice of one racially marginalized community.
Through photographs, objects, archival documents, and personal accounts, the exhibition traces the experiences of individuals like Kaoru Atagi, whose family ran a successful boatworks in Steveston, BC and Eikichi Kagetsu, a self-made logging entrepreneur and community leader. It explores the resilience of people like Masue Tagashira, a widowed mother who remained in Canada despite hardship, and Keiko Mary Murakami, who recalls an “ideal” childhood before her family was uprooted.
Venue:
Okanagan Heritage Museum
Address:470 Queensway Avenue, Kelowna
Cost:
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