In June 2006 Prime Minister Harper apologized to Chinese Canadians for their treatment regarding the Chinese Head Tax, and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1923.  The survivors of the head tax or their spouses were paid roughly 20,000 dollars in compensation.
Article taken from the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper website.

This was made on Botanical Beach. Create your own by filling in the shape of a species using found objects in nature.  Write the name of the species underneath and you, by doing so, have created awareness of its habitat. Choose a species at risk and you, and others, will better understand its importance.  Don't forget to take a photograph to share!

Bill C-331 passed in 2005 acknowledges the internment of peoples of Ukrainian origin during WW1 under the authority of Parliament.  The enactment represents negotiations between Ukrainian-Canadian organisations and the Government to enact measures that recognize the internment of Ukrainian peoples during WW1. 

Addressed to Nykolay Andrusiak, a subject of Austria, is a certificate of release from an internment camp at Vernon, B.C.  As we can see in the conditions of discharge, Nykolay's conditions reflect many of the sections of the War Measures Act of 1914.
Taken from Library and Archives Canada. MIKAN no. 1604479

Internment camp at Morrissey B.C. during WW1 for Germanic and Austro-Hungarian people.  How does this image contrast the other two images of internment camps in Vernon?  What might you be able to tell about living conditions from the photo?

Men, Women, and children were interned at many of these camps during WW1.  Here we have an image of two children at an internment camp in Vernon, B.C.  On the photograph is written "Some happy camp children."  Who might be taking the photo? Could the photo be staged?

Explore RBCM's virtual exhibit, Journeys & Transformations to experience some of the diversity of B.C.'s changing landscapes. 

Click here to view Journeys & Transformations online. (Photo: Stephen Cannings)