{"id":2211,"date":"2019-04-09T18:38:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T18:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2019-05-01T17:26:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T17:26:29","slug":"haq-history-l-sasi-in-partnership-with-royal-bc-museum-unveils-new-pocket-gallery-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/2019\/04\/09\/haq-history-l-sasi-in-partnership-with-royal-bc-museum-unveils-new-pocket-gallery-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal BC Museum in Partnership with the SASI Unveils New Exhibit: Haq & History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since 2014, the South Asian Studies Institute has partnered with the Royal BC Museum to record, narrate and include in a historical record the stories of Punjabi settlers in the Province of British Columbia. To date, the SASI and the RBCM have collected interviews and collected archives of 148 Punjabi families across the entire Province.<\/p>\n

Recently, the Punjabi Canadian Legacy Project partnership has been highlighted in local media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Based on the many years of work and research, the SASI is pleased to announce that the RBCM has unveiled its latest Pocket Gallery exhibit, just in time to commemorate Sikh Heritage Month.<\/p>\n

To view images from the exhibit, please visit the Royal BC Museum<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

Below is an excerpt from the official RBCM Press Release<\/a>:<\/p>\n

April 03, 2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Celebrate Sikh Heritage Month by visiting the new Pocket Gallery display<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0VICTORIA, BC\u2013 Nearly one million people came to Canada from the Punjab region in the twentieth century. But who were these individuals, and what were their experiences like? <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0A new (and free) Pocket Gallery display at the Royal BC Museum, Haq and History, offers visitors the chance to hear stories from and about these immigrants and see rare objects that chronicle their lives, including details about work, home life and keeping cultural traditions alive in BC. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Through videos, panel text and artifacts, visitors to Haq and History will learn about Punjabi immigrants working in sawmills in the 1920s; hear about travel from Punjab to Canada in the 1950s; learn some of the challenges of sourcing Indian food in Vancouver in the 1960s; and eavesdrop on memories of life in the now-abandoned town of Paldi in the 1940s. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Haq and History is the latest collaboration of the Royal BC Museum and the South Asian Studies Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley. In 2015 the two organizations, with strong and consistent community input, began a project to explore Punjabi Canadian community voices in British Columbia, from the first arrivals to the present day.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0The Pocket Gallery occupies a corner \u201cpocket\u201d of the museum\u2019s ground floor Clifford Carl Hall and is easily accessible, for free, to all visitors during opening hours (10:00 am to 5:00 pm, seven days a week).<\/em><\/p>\n

The Pocket Gallery was originally envisioned, in early 2016, to cast a bright light on the amazing array of Royal BC Museum collections, research and conservation work that visitors rarely get to see.<\/em><\/p>\n

Quotations:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are grateful to the many Punjabi communities and families who shared their stories with us in two rounds of province-wide consultations. Their experiences are a significant part of BC history, and the Royal BC Museum is eager to share them, through this bilingual display, with all British Columbians.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n