In honour of Asian Heritage Month, Regional Archives Committee member Renée Sarojini Saklikar sends us this excerpt about her father, the late Rev. Dr. Vasant …
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For our second installment, the Regional Archives brings us to the annual Cherry Blossom Bazaar — a decades-old tradition of the Vancouver Japanese United Church. Lots …
As May begins, the Regional Archives will be helping us celebrate and promote Asian Heritage Month by featuring a vignette from our history. For this first …
“Because of the federal government’s policy of dispersal following the war, so many British Colombians of Japanese descent were scattered throughout the rest of Canada. One of the aims of the Vancouver Japanese United Church Archive website is to reach out to Canadians whose roots trace back to the Vancouver congregation; we want to encourage viewers to learn about their past, help identify people in the images and share stories.”
Dr. William Donald Watt served as a medical doctor within The United Church of Canada. He and his spouse, June (a nurse), began their adventure …
The book had to have a beginning, middle and an end, but this meant several stories had to be left untold.
And so a book was written, and it took only seven years—a personal best for the Archives Committee. And just in time for the official ending of BC Conference as we have come to know it.
This new book aims to provide a lasting record of some of the times and tides of change in BC Conference. Copies available!
Joan Fidler Burrows is so steeped in The United Church of Canada that she was even baptized by our first moderator! In this interview, Joan …
Donna Ziegler is well known in BC Conference and has been an active member of Prince Rupert Presbytery for many decades and has served on …
