On the afternoon of February 12, 2009, the spirit of the Issei…

Sensation…. Memories…. Skin and bones…. In 1980, Koichi Tamano gave a performance at the Robson Street Media Centre and burned an imprint in my brain that resonates to this day.

On April 16, 1942, all Japanese Canadians in the Comox Valley suddenly…

Sometime during the day on March 4th, a snow avalanche descended Cheops Mountain into the valley at the Summit of Rogers Pass. It covered the CPR railway. A crew of men and a locomotive-driven snow blower were dispatched to clear the tracks. The men would clear the debris from the snow and the snow blower would move in to blow the snow off of the tracks. As the men struggled through the night to clear the first snow slide, a second avalanche descended from the opposite side of the valley and hit the railway at the point where the men were working.

When he turned to research and writing, our family was loaded into the car on a long road trip across the country. We stopped in small towns with names like Slocan and New Denver, which were steeped in memory for him. But for us kids -- we just shrugged our shoulders with impatience . . . not able to see the import or history.

By Alex Ross My grandpa, Roy Ito, passed away in 1999 when…

The Ito family donated their father's archive with an award for someone to do research and to create a public presentation of Roy Ito's work. I was the recipient of this award proposing an online interactive project that would house three new works in response to an item within his archive.

First of all let me say that what surprised me most about…