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Letters from Readers

The Washboard Legacy We were pleased to see the excellent article in the Fall issue of British Columbia History about Chinese laundries in BC. It is worth noting, however, that discriminatory legal measures against the Chinese were not confined to head taxes and labour restrictions but were intended to affect Chinese laundries as well. In 1885, BC’s provincial government amended its Municipal Act to authorize municipalities to regulate and licence laundries with fees that were calculated to force them to shut down. The City of Victoria quickly enacted a bylaw designed to have this effect. Of course, everyone knew that such laundries were almost exclusively owned and operated by Chinese. Once such operator, Mee Wah, was convicted under the bylaw because he had not paid the exorbitant licence fee. He…

Letters from Readers

Letters from Readers

The Washboard Legacy We were pleased to see the excellent article in the Fall issue of British Columbia History about Chinese laundries in BC. It is worth noting, however, that discriminatory legal measures against the Chinese were not confined to head taxes and labour restrictions but were intended to affect Chinese laundries as well. In 1885, BC’s provincial government amended its Municipal Act to authorize municipalities to regulate and licence laundries with fees that were calculated to force them to shut down. The City of Victoria quickly enacted a bylaw designed to have this effect. Of course, everyone knew that such laundries were almost exclusively owned and operated by Chinese. Once such operator, Mee Wah, was convicted under the bylaw because he had not paid the exorbitant licence fee. He challenged this conviction,…

Letters from Readers

We Value These Histories

The importance of community and local history is not lost on someone who rarely sees her history reflected in Canadian public discourse or correctly reflected in the Canadian record. My thoughts turn to the early 1900s when my first brethren came to BC’s shores from an India that was under colonial rule and where, in their own country, they were treated as second-class citizens. They came seeking a better economic life but quickly faced discrimination that cut to the very core of their identity. Today, as we are forced come to terms with our own culpability as settlers on this land through the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, I realize that much work needs to be done by all of us to create a better Canadian historic record…

We Value These Histories

We Value These Histories

The importance of community and local history is not lost on someone who rarely sees her history reflected in Canadian public discourse or correctly reflected in the Canadian record. My thoughts turn to the early 1900s when my first brethren came to BC’s shores from an India that was under colonial rule and where, in their own country, they were treated as second-class citizens. They came seeking a better economic life but quickly faced discrimination that cut to the very core of their identity. Today, as we are forced come to terms with our own culpability as settlers on this land through the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, I realize that much work needs to be done by all of us to create a better Canadian historic record and…

We Value These Histories

UNION LAUNDRY The Story of Harry and May Yuen

If you were in Vancouver’s Chinatown in the early 1970s, standing on the corner of Union Street and Gore Avenue, you could not have missed the Prior Street on-ramp of the new Georgia–Dunsmuir viaduct. As you came off the viaduct, you would see our red brick Union Laundry building at 274 Union Street. Our home, business, and the rental house next door stuck out like sore thumbs: my father was still in dispute with the City of Vancouver long after our former neighbours had relocated to make way for the new viaduct. Fast forward to 2020. At our former laundry site is now Nora Hendrix Place, a temporary modular housing structure. Television reporters looking for Black Lives Matter stories frequently focus on this building named after the grandmother of musician…

UNION LAUNDRY

The Story of Harry and May Yuen

UNION LAUNDRY The Story of Harry and May Yuen

If you were in Vancouver’s Chinatown in the early 1970s, standing on the corner of Union Street and Gore Avenue, you could not have missed the Prior Street on-ramp of the new Georgia–Dunsmuir viaduct. As you came off the viaduct, you would see our red brick Union Laundry building at 274 Union Street. Our home, business, and the rental house next door stuck out like sore thumbs: my father was still in dispute with the City of Vancouver long after our former neighbours had relocated to make way for the new viaduct. Fast forward to 2020. At our former laundry site is now Nora Hendrix Place, a temporary modular housing structure. Television reporters looking for Black Lives Matter stories frequently focus on this building named after the grandmother of musician Jimi…

UNION LAUNDRY The Story of Harry and May Yuen

Did you know that written Chinese has two character sets?

Standard Chinese, also known as Modern Standard Mandarin, uses a simplified character set that came into use in 1949. It is used today in Mainland China and in Singapore. The characters Elwin has used in his article are from the Traditional Chinese character set, used today in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau. He notes that his family speaks Enping (Yin Ping), a dialect of standard Cantonese. Cantonese is part of the Yue group of Chinese languages spoken in southeast China. The majority of early Chinese immigrants to North, Central and South America and British Commonwealth countries during the mid-19th century arrived from several counties within Guangdong Province (Kwangtung). Enping (Yin Ping), Kaiping (Hoy Ping), Panyu (Poon Yue), Shunde (Shun Duck), Taishan (Toishan), Xinhui (Sun Wui), and Zhong Shan (Chung Shan)…

Did you know that written Chinese has two character sets?

Did you know that written Chinese has two character sets?

Standard Chinese, also known as Modern Standard Mandarin, uses a simplified character set that came into use in 1949. It is used today in Mainland China and in Singapore. The characters Elwin has used in his article are from the Traditional Chinese character set, used today in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau. He notes that his family speaks Enping (Yin Ping), a dialect of standard Cantonese. Cantonese is part of the Yue group of Chinese languages spoken in southeast China. The majority of early Chinese immigrants to North, Central and South America and British Commonwealth countries during the mid-19th century arrived from several counties within Guangdong Province (Kwangtung). Enping (Yin Ping), Kaiping (Hoy Ping), Panyu (Poon Yue), Shunde (Shun Duck), Taishan (Toishan), Xinhui (Sun Wui), and Zhong Shan (Chung Shan) are all within the…

Did you know that written Chinese has two character sets?

OUR HISTORY IS PART OF THE CANADIAN RECORD Reflections on the work of the South Asian Studies Institute

The South Asian Studies Institute is a unique research centre that studies both the South Asia region and the South Asian Canadian diaspora. In 2004 a group of intrepid community leaders met with the University of the Fraser Valley’s senior administration to discuss the need to include Indo Canadian studies as a part of the curriculum and as a specialized area of research. Their ideas were met with great enthusiasm, and the foundations for developing programming at UFV was set. That same group then volunteered to fundraise towards the establishment of a Research Chair on Canada–India Business and Economic Development. In two years, they successfully raised $1.25 million dollars, matched by the BC government. The university then designed the Centre for Indo Canadian Studies, which officially opened its doors in…

OUR HISTORY IS PART OF THE CANADIAN RECORD Reflections on the work of the South Asian Studies Institute

OUR HISTORY IS PART OF THE CANADIAN RECORD Reflections on the work of the South Asian Studies Institute

The South Asian Studies Institute is a unique research centre that studies both the South Asia region and the South Asian Canadian diaspora. In 2004 a group of intrepid community leaders met with the University of the Fraser Valley’s senior administration to discuss the need to include Indo Canadian studies as a part of the curriculum and as a specialized area of research. Their ideas were met with great enthusiasm, and the foundations for developing programming at UFV was set. That same group then volunteered to fundraise towards the establishment of a Research Chair on Canada–India Business and Economic Development. In two years, they successfully raised $1.25 million dollars, matched by the BC government. The university then designed the Centre for Indo Canadian Studies, which officially opened its doors in…

OUR HISTORY IS PART OF THE CANADIAN RECORD

Reflections on the work of the South Asian Studies Institute

They Persevered and Built a Community

Originally named Mayo Siding, this mill town just west of Duncan was founded by Mayo Singh in 1917. It flourished for two decades, then struggled after the mill closed in the 1940s. People gather each summer to remember the meaning of this place, and in 2017 people came from all over the world to celebrate the centenary of the Paldi Sikh Temple, once the heart of the community. Today only this temple remains as evidence of the town’s built heritage, and the life stories of the many thousands of people who called this place home are just beginning to be gathered. Satwinder Bains reflects on the importance of Paldi history and the urgency she feels to safeguard its stories. Paldi is one of those small towns in BC where even the name…

They Persevered and Built a Community

They Persevered and Built a Community

Originally named Mayo Siding, this mill town just west of Duncan was founded by Mayo Singh in 1917. It flourished for two decades, then struggled after the mill closed in the 1940s. People gather each summer to remember the meaning of this place, and in 2017 people came from all over the world to celebrate the centenary of the Paldi Sikh Temple, once the heart of the community. Today only this temple remains as evidence of the town’s built heritage, and the life stories of the many thousands of people who called this place home are just beginning to be gathered. Satwinder Bains reflects on the importance of Paldi history and the urgency she feels to safeguard its stories. Paldi is one of those small towns in BC where even…

They Persevered and Built a Community

STOP AND WITNESS: Decolonizing BC’s roadside history

In September 2016, a sign was unveiled just up the street from my home in Kamloops. It was the kind of familiar sign that dots Canada’s highways, meant for motorists to pull over and read, learn a thing or two about local history, and move on with a new appreciation for the landscape. The sign kicked off a campaign by the BC Ministry of Transportation to expand the province’s stock of public history and to invite new suggestions for stories. That renewal campaign signalled an awakening of sorts for public commemoration, as Canadians began to better understand how much of the public history attempted by Canada’s provinces, and indeed, the nation itself, reflects a very narrow, often idealized experience. The plaques, statues, and roadside displays that feed our collective understanding…

STOP AND WITNESS:

Decolonizing BC’s roadside history

STOP AND WITNESS: Decolonizing BC’s roadside history

In September 2016, a sign was unveiled just up the street from my home in Kamloops. It was the kind of familiar sign that dots Canada’s highways, meant for motorists to pull over and read, learn a thing or two about local history, and move on with a new appreciation for the landscape. The sign kicked off a campaign by the BC Ministry of Transportation to expand the province’s stock of public history and to invite new suggestions for stories. That renewal campaign signalled an awakening of sorts for public commemoration, as Canadians began to better understand how much of the public history attempted by Canada’s provinces, and indeed, the nation itself, reflects a very narrow, often idealized experience. The plaques, statues, and roadside displays that feed our collective understanding of…

STOP AND WITNESS: Decolonizing BC’s roadside history

Culturally Modified

Joanne Hammond’s article—in a previous form—appeared in Culturally Modified, a quarterly online publication edited by Delani Valin. Culturally Modified seeks to explore the tangible and intangible aspects of culture. Each issue delves into a resonant theme such as Power, Movement, or Water—and offers a diverse array of interdisciplinary perspectives including academic research, wisdom, and lived experiences. Located on the traditional territory of the Wet’suwet’en, Culturally Modified is British Columbia-based and internationally focused, offering a platform to contributors both local and global, and creating a community that’s passionate about cross-cultural understanding. Find out more at https://culturallymodified.org/…

Culturally Modified

Joanne Hammond’s article—in a previous form—appeared in Culturally Modified, a quarterly online publication edited by Delani Valin. Culturally Modified seeks to explore the tangible and intangible aspects of culture. Each issue delves into a resonant theme such as Power, Movement, or Water—and offers a diverse array of interdisciplinary perspectives including academic research, wisdom, and lived experiences. Located on the traditional territory of the Wet’suwet’en, Culturally Modified is British Columbia-based and internationally focused, offering a platform to contributors both local and global, and creating a community that’s passionate about cross-cultural understanding. Find out more at https://culturallymodified.org/…

Ichiro Shiino’s photographic legacy

The Arrow Lakes owes a debt of gratitude to the photographic foresight of a former Paldi mill hand. Ichiro Shiino left a legacy in film, chronicling the industrial and social life of Nakusp and its environs over several decades. Born in Cumberland in 1915, Shiino (nicknamed Ichi or Ichon) worked in his youth for Mayo Brothers Timber Co. at Paldi, where he and friend Masanobu Kawahira began documenting everyday life with their cameras. In 1942, at age 27, he was interned along with thousands of other Japanese Canadians at Lemon Creek in the Slocan Valley. Internees were forbidden from possessing cameras, but Shiino managed to take photos anyway. He also used his artistic abilities to render realistic charcoal portraits of film stars. He began working for the Big Bend Lumber Co.…

Ichiro Shiino’s photographic legacy

Ichiro Shiino’s photographic legacy

The Arrow Lakes owes a debt of gratitude to the photographic foresight of a former Paldi mill hand. Ichiro Shiino left a legacy in film, chronicling the industrial and social life of Nakusp and its environs over several decades. Born in Cumberland in 1915, Shiino (nicknamed Ichi or Ichon) worked in his youth for Mayo Brothers Timber Co. at Paldi, where he and friend Masanobu Kawahira began documenting everyday life with their cameras. In 1942, at age 27, he was interned along with thousands of other Japanese Canadians at Lemon Creek in the Slocan Valley. Internees were forbidden from possessing cameras, but Shiino managed to take photos anyway. He also used his artistic abilities to render realistic charcoal portraits of film stars. He began working for the Big Bend Lumber…

Ichiro Shiino’s photographic legacy

Bulkley Valley Museum via Collections Online

Photographs have a wonderful power to uncover long-buried memories. While scanning the Bulkley Valley Museum’s Collections Online portal I stumbled across a photo of the Smithers CNR train station that triggered an instant flashback. It’s where I stepped off the train in 1974 for my first broadcasting job as a frizzy-haired 19-year-old from Ontario toting one blue trunk and a guitar. I’d watched the Canadian landscape unfold from my seat thanks to a ticket purchased by my grandparents. Although my time in Smithers was brief —just six months—the town and surrounding valley have never left me. Indeed, the Bulkley Valley Museum’s digital collection allows me to return and learn more about this fascinating region near the geographic heart of our province. BVM Curator Kira Westby reports that visits to Collections Online…

Bulkley Valley Museum via Collections Online

Bulkley Valley Museum via Collections Online

Photographs have a wonderful power to uncover long-buried memories. While scanning the Bulkley Valley Museum’s Collections Online portal I stumbled across a photo of the Smithers CNR train station that triggered an instant flashback. It’s where I stepped off the train in 1974 for my first broadcasting job as a frizzy-haired 19-year-old from Ontario toting one blue trunk and a guitar. I’d watched the Canadian landscape unfold from my seat thanks to a ticket purchased by my grandparents. Although my time in Smithers was brief —just six months—the town and surrounding valley have never left me. Indeed, the Bulkley Valley Museum’s digital collection allows me to return and learn more about this fascinating region near the geographic heart of our province. BVM Curator Kira Westby reports that visits to Collections…

Bulkley Valley Museum via Collections Online

Prince Rupert City and Regional Archives

With only a card table for a desk, a four-drawer wooden filing cabinet, and an interest in preserving the historical records of the region, Gladys Blyth, Phylis Bowman, and Barbara Sheppard established the Prince Rupert City & Regional Archives in September 1980. Bowman, a local historian, had collected boxes of photographs and documents. In 1975 she made an attempt to start an archives, but her request for funding from Prince Rupert’s city council was unsuccessful. Five years later, Blyth was managing the North Coast Marine Museum and hired Bowman and Sheppard on a part-time basis. “I had a Museum and Archives Assistance grant application just sitting on my desk,” recalled Blyth. Their application was successful. With the support of local organizations and the North Coast Regional District, Sheppard continued to…

Prince Rupert City and Regional Archives

Prince Rupert City and Regional Archives

With only a card table for a desk, a four-drawer wooden filing cabinet, and an interest in preserving the historical records of the region, Gladys Blyth, Phylis Bowman, and Barbara Sheppard established the Prince Rupert City & Regional Archives in September 1980. Bowman, a local historian, had collected boxes of photographs and documents. In 1975 she made an attempt to start an archives, but her request for funding from Prince Rupert’s city council was unsuccessful. Five years later, Blyth was managing the North Coast Marine Museum and hired Bowman and Sheppard on a part-time basis. “I had a Museum and Archives Assistance grant application just sitting on my desk,” recalled Blyth. Their application was successful. With the support of local organizations and the North Coast Regional District, Sheppard continued to run…

Prince Rupert City and Regional Archives

PAST FORWARD | BC HISTORY THROUGH DIGITAL MEDIA

Digital media takes many forms. The range of options used to share narratives in British Columbia’s history are as diverse as the stories themselves. This issue of “Past Forward” features interactive websites, a YouTube channel, and a card game that is available digitally but designed to be played in the physical world. Sturgeon Harpoon Knowledge Web https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~biodiv/web/ The result of a partnership between the Musqueam First Nation and the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, this interactive website explores the complex interconnections between species—elk, sea lion, eagle, fir, scouring rush, and sturgeon—and culture. “To Musqueam, a sturgeon is more than simply a sturgeon. It’s an entry point to aspects of language, territory, health, technology, and our society, and the respect and responsibilities that accompany them.” This digital experience includes video clips and a virtual tour. Taiken: History…

PAST FORWARD | BC HISTORY THROUGH DIGITAL MEDIA

PAST FORWARD | BC HISTORY THROUGH DIGITAL MEDIA

Digital media takes many forms. The range of options used to share narratives in British Columbia’s history are as diverse as the stories themselves. This issue of “Past Forward” features interactive websites, a YouTube channel, and a card game that is available digitally but designed to be played in the physical world. Sturgeon Harpoon Knowledge Web https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~biodiv/web/ The result of a partnership between the Musqueam First Nation and the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, this interactive website explores the complex interconnections between species—elk, sea lion, eagle, fir, scouring rush, and sturgeon—and culture. “To Musqueam, a sturgeon is more than simply a sturgeon. It’s an entry point to aspects of language, territory, health, technology, and our society, and the respect and responsibilities that accompany them.” This digital experience includes video clips and a…

PAST FORWARD | BC HISTORY THROUGH DIGITAL MEDIA

Accessing BC History in 2020

Books are only one way to learn about the past. I visit heritage sites to feel transported back to a place in time, and I appreciate the flexibility museums have to interpret a multitude of stories. Every year I make dozens of visits to heritage sites and museums both near my home on Vancouver Island and in different areas of British Columbia and other provinces. Not surprisingly, 2020 has been an exception. Fortunately, many cultural organizations shifted to online programming or increased their virtual presence this year. I watched more author presentations and webinars online than I could have attended in-person—even if we weren’t in the midst of a pandemic—and had the opportunity to hear speakers from more diverse perspectives. This year more than ever I appreciated access to digital…

Accessing BC History in 2020

Accessing BC History in 2020

Books are only one way to learn about the past. I visit heritage sites to feel transported back to a place in time, and I appreciate the flexibility museums have to interpret a multitude of stories. Every year I make dozens of visits to heritage sites and museums both near my home on Vancouver Island and in different areas of British Columbia and other provinces. Not surprisingly, 2020 has been an exception. Fortunately, many cultural organizations shifted to online programming or increased their virtual presence this year. I watched more author presentations and webinars online than I could have attended in-person—even if we weren’t in the midst of a pandemic—and had the opportunity to hear speakers from more diverse perspectives. This year more than ever I appreciated access to digital media, virtual…

Accessing BC History in 2020

Written by family insider Jinder Oujla-Chalmers, this book is both a biography of Asa Singh Johal and his family and an in-de pth look at BC’s lumber industry. Asa Johal was a toddler when he immigrated to Canada with his Sikh family in 1924. Johal got his start as a labourer in sawmills and established Terminal Forest Products in 1965, becoming a force among the typically White-owned and operated forest companies that dominated British Columbia. Read it for: Johal’s philanthropic work, an intimate look at his against-the-odds successes, and the story of a traditional Sik h family. ~ Aimee…

Written by family insider Jinder Oujla-Chalmers, this book is both a biography of Asa Singh Johal and his family and an in-de pth look at BC’s lumber industry. Asa Johal was a toddler when he immigrated to Canada with his Sikh family in 1924. Johal got his start as a labourer in sawmills and established Terminal Forest Products in 1965, becoming a force among the typically White-owned and operated forest companies that dominated British Columbia. Read it for: Johal’s philanthropic work, an intimate look at his against-the-odds successes, and the story of a traditional Sik h family. ~ Aimee…

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Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow by Catherine B. Clement (Vancouver: Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, 2020) $70 Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Café and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants by Ann Hui (Madeira Park, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2019) $24.95 Food Floor: My Woodward’s Days by Margaret Cadwaladr (Langley, BC: Madrona Books & Publishing, 2020) $15.95 Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians by Jordan Stanger-Ross (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020) $39.95 North Delta History and Heritage including Annieville, Upper and Lower Sunbury, Annacis Island, part of East Delta, and Burns Bog by North Delta Advisory Group, Delta Heritage Society, edited by John Macdonald (Delta, BC: Hemlock Harling Distribution Inc., 2020) Plants, People, and Places:…

Recently Released

Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow by Catherine B. Clement (Vancouver: Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC, 2020) $70 Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Café and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants by Ann Hui (Madeira Park, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2019) $24.95 Food Floor: My Woodward’s Days by Margaret Cadwaladr (Langley, BC: Madrona Books & Publishing, 2020) $15.95 Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians by Jordan Stanger-Ross (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020) $39.95 North Delta History and Heritage including Annieville, Upper and Lower Sunbury, Annacis Island, part of East Delta, and Burns Bog by North Delta Advisory Group, Delta Heritage Society, edited by John Macdonald (Delta, BC: Hemlock Harling Distribution Inc., 2020) Plants, People, and Places: The Roles of Ethnobotany and…

The Kinsol Trestle Celebrates 100 Years

Completed in 1920, the Kinsol Trestle is the largest wooden railway bridge in the Commonwealth, offering a spectacular crossing of the Koksilah River. The trestle is notable for both its size and its unusual seven-degree curve. Also known as the Koksilah River Bridge, the trestle reminds us of the once powerful forest industry and the ambition and ingenuity required to overcome substantial geographical challenges in the construction of railways. The last train crossed the Kinsol Trestle in 1979, and by 2006 the deteriorating bridge was threatened with demolition. The regional government planned to replace it with a simpler, lower-cost structure in order to complete the Cowichan Valley section of the Trans Canada Trail. After initiating an independent analysis of the trestle, Gordon Macdonald of Macdonald & Lawrence Timber Framing presented an…

The Kinsol Trestle Celebrates 100 Years

The Kinsol Trestle Celebrates 100 Years

Completed in 1920, the Kinsol Trestle is the largest wooden railway bridge in the Commonwealth, offering a spectacular crossing of the Koksilah River. The trestle is notable for both its size and its unusual seven-degree curve. Also known as the Koksilah River Bridge, the trestle reminds us of the once powerful forest industry and the ambition and ingenuity required to overcome substantial geographical challenges in the construction of railways. The last train crossed the Kinsol Trestle in 1979, and by 2006 the deteriorating bridge was threatened with demolition. The regional government planned to replace it with a simpler, lower-cost structure in order to complete the Cowichan Valley section of the Trans Canada Trail. After initiating an independent analysis of the trestle, Gordon Macdonald of Macdonald & Lawrence Timber Framing presented…

The Kinsol Trestle Celebrates 100 Years

Nanaimo Harbour Then and Now

Fujikazu “Frank” Koyama and his wife Taka lived beside their wharf on Stewart Avenue in Nanaimo and were respected members of the community. During the Second World War, the Koyamas were forcibly removed from the coast along with thousands of other Japanese Canadians and sent to an internment camp in Greenwood. Sadly, Frank Koyama died in 1944 at the age of 57 years, while interned. Today, the location is a marina and boat yard. To learn more about Nanaimo’s history, follow the Nanaimo Museum on social media or find out what’s new at the museum by visiting www.nanaimomuseum.ca .…

Nanaimo Harbour Then and Now

Nanaimo Harbour Then and Now

Fujikazu “Frank” Koyama and his wife Taka lived beside their wharf on Stewart Avenue in Nanaimo and were respected members of the community. During the Second World War, the Koyamas were forcibly removed from the coast along with thousands of other Japanese Canadians and sent to an internment camp in Greenwood. Sadly, Frank Koyama died in 1944 at the age of 57 years, while interned. Today, the location is a marina and boat yard. To learn more about Nanaimo’s history, follow the Nanaimo Museum on social media or find out what’s new at the museum by visiting www.nanaimomuseum.ca .…

Nanaimo Harbour
Then and Now

HISTORY IN CONTEXT

Do you have an old photograph with a story to tell? Contribute the photograph to British Columbia History magazine’s back page feature. We would like to encourage you help bring a photograph of the past to the present. Anyone can contribute a photograph! Please send your photograph of the past in the present to: bcheditor@bchistory.ca and include information on who or what is in the photograph and why it is important to you or your community. It could appear here on the back page.…

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