NIKKEI MUBI Japanese Canadian Home Movies
Jun 04, 2020
3 minutes
By Lindsey Jacobson and Jeffery Chong; edited by Sylvia Stopforth
Nikkei National Museum, scene from NNM
2011.64.7.1.2 (Shigetaka Sasaki Family fonds)
At the Nikkei National Museum, our mandate is to honour, preserve, and share Japanese culture and Japanese Canadian history and heritage for a better Canada. Recently, we completed the conservation and digitization of our moving image collection as part of the project, These home movies were created by Japanese Canadians, and document their lives in British Columbia and Alberta from the 1920s to the 1970s. The 103 reels add up to nearly 27 hours of viewing, with a
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