Broken Promises

The Cowichan Valley Museum is located inside the Duncan Train Station is featuring the travelling exhibition, Broken Promises from the Nikkei Museum in Vancouver.  In 1942, the Government of Canada detained and interned some 21,000 people of Japanese descent living in British Columbia. Within a year, the government authorized the sale of their belongings, leaving Japanese Canadians with nothing. When the internment era ended in 1949, those who had been detained found their homes, farms, businesses, vehicles, pets, and personal items were gone. Broken Promises is dedicated to revealing the history of the Japanese Canadian dispossession and the impact that period of injustice continues to have.