NIMC News

NIMC Calendars – Available

NIMC 2021 calendars are available to purchase at the Village Office or email: nikkei@newdenver.ca. These 11″x 17″ calendars showcase beautifully-detailed photographs of selected NIMC archives and are $20 each, plus tax. Proceeds go towards the NIMC operations and future projects. Thank you for your support.

NIMC 2020 – CLOSED for the Season

The Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre is now closed for the season. Thank you for visiting the NIMC this season and for your support of our National Historic Site. We hope to see you next year! Council thanks our seasonal staff for their hard work this season.

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Japanese Canadian Historic Sites in BC: Journeys of Home

Destination BC has released the Feature Story, “Japanese Canadian Historic Sites: Journeys of Home” on their consumer trip-planning website: https://www.hellobc.com/stories/japanese-canadian-historic-sites-in-bc-journeys-ofhome/. This article tells the story of Japanese Canadians from the family story of a third generation Japanese Canadian, Laura Saimoto, whose family together with 22,000 Japanese Canadians, were interned from 1942-49 in Internment Camps in the interior of BC. It outlines easily accessible travel routes and describes where to discover and experience Japanese Canadian Historic sites throughout our beautiful province.

When the Second World War broke out, Japanese Canadians were considered a ‘security threat’ and interned in camps beyond a 100 mile zone from the west coast, stripped of their civil rights and dispossessed of all they owned – their houses, cars, boats, properties and businesses. This summer, with racial tensions rising all over the world, travel our backyard as an outdoor classroom to experience where this history happened and ways racism can so profoundly change the course of a community’s history. At the same time, be inspired by how, with amazing strength and resilience, the community rose above adversity to create a ‘sense of home’ for their children.
Japanese Canadian Historic Sites from all parts.

Japanese Canadian Historic Sites from all parts of BC invite you to visit and learn Japanese Canadian history as an integral part of British Columbia’s history this summer.

Japanese Canadian Historic Sites in BC: Journeys of Home

This July, we are promoting selfies at NIMC via historicplacesday.ca! Post your selfie (or photo) on the website (https://historicplacesday.ca/contests/), tag #historicplacesday @nationaltrustca #Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre for a chance to win $1000! The contest runs until July 31. For more information: https://historicplacesday.ca/contests-selfie/

Open for Business

We are now open daily, 10 am to 5 pm. Please read COVID-19 Info for Visitors before your NIMC visit, so you know what to expect. Also, if you’re planning to visit BC, check out these helpful tips from Hello BC – Know Before You Go.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES @ NIMC

Do you like local history and meeting new people? The Village of New Denver is accepting applications for positions (Museum Assistants and Collections Assistant) at the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre. There are both student and non-student positions to be filled; for more information on student positions, please see details below:

Museum Assistant – Job Description

Collections Assistant – Job Description

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