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Exhibit: Broken Promises
the Courtenay and District Museum 207 4th St, Courtenay, BC, COURTENAYThe Courtenay and District Museum is pleased to present the travelling exhibition Broken Promises from the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre. Grounded in research from Landscapes of Injustice – a 7 year multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, community engaged project, this exhibit explores the dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s. It illuminates the loss of home […]
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Lecture: The Coast Salish Woolly Dog
the Courtenay and District Museum 207 4th St, Courtenay, BC, COURTENAYLocation: Rotary Gallery of the Courtenay and District Museum Speaker: researcher and writer on Coast Salish textiles Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa This illustrated presentation will give a brief overview of Mutton’s story (Mutton was the name of the only known woolly dog whose pelt is at the Smithsonian). Genetic research has been combined with Oral History […]
$5 – $6