{"id":1545,"date":"2016-12-13T19:38:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T19:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indocanadianstudies\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2016-12-13T19:38:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T19:38:56","slug":"sikh-heritage-museum-receives-the-award-of-merit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/2016\/12\/13\/sikh-heritage-museum-receives-the-award-of-merit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikh Heritage Museum Receives the Award of Merit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadiansikhheritage.ca\">Sikh Heritage Museum<\/a>, located in the National Historic Site Gur Sikh Temple (the oldest still-standing Sikh Gurdwara in the Western Hemisphere) was recently honoured by the <a href=\"http:\/\/museumsassn.bc.ca\/archives\/4798\/4798\/\">BC Museums Association<\/a>. The Sikh Heritage Museum received the &#8216;Award of Merit&#8217; for its exhibit\u00a0<em>Canadian Sikhs in WWI: A Forgotten Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The BCMA annual awards recognize institutions and individuals who have exemplified excellence in creativity, community engagement and innovation within the Province\u2019s museums, galleries and history community.<\/p>\n<p>Three Awards of Merit were presented for outstanding, innovative and creative achievements to: The Sikh Heritage Museum, The Chinese Canadian Artifacts Project and\u00a0The Residential and Indian Day School Art Research Project.\u00a0A Distinguished Service award was presented for a unique and substantial contribution over an extended period of time to George Harris, Curator at Two Rivers Gallery in Prince George.<\/p>\n<p>For the official press release from the BCMA, please click <a href=\"http:\/\/museumsassn.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Release-BCMA-Awards-of-Outstanding-Achievement-2016-1.pdf\">Press Release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Sikh Heritage Museum&#8217;s recent award was also featured by the CBC News in an article that can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/abbotsford-museum-sikh-display-1.3889999\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2016\/12\/Reduced-BCMA-council-with-2016-Awards-recipients.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1546 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2016\/12\/Reduced-BCMA-council-with-2016-Awards-recipients-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"reduced-bcma-council-with-2016-awards-recipients\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2016\/12\/Reduced-BCMA-council-with-2016-Awards-recipients-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2016\/12\/Reduced-BCMA-council-with-2016-Awards-recipients-768x616.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2016\/12\/Reduced-BCMA-council-with-2016-Awards-recipients.jpg 1003w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sikh Heritage Museum, located in the National Historic Site Gur Sikh Temple (the oldest still-standing Sikh Gurdwara in the Western Hemisphere) was recently honoured by the BC Museums Association. The Sikh Heritage Museum received the &#8216;Award of Merit&#8217; for its exhibit\u00a0Canadian Sikhs in WWI: A Forgotten Story. The BCMA annual awards recognize institutions and &#8230; <a title=\"Sikh Heritage Museum Receives the Award of Merit\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/2016\/12\/13\/sikh-heritage-museum-receives-the-award-of-merit\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}