The Quebec Nikkei Archives Project
Revitalizing the Japanese Canadian archives in Quebec
Facilitating access to our community archive.
A brief history
In 2005, Montreal Japanese Canadian community organizers donated documents, recordings, photographs, and publications to the McGill University Archives (MUA). With materials dating to the 1940s, this Collection was initially assembled by the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre of Montreal’s (JCCCM) History and Archives Committee in the decades preceding the transfer of its stewardship to McGill.
OUR MISSION
Offer a resource for discovering the rich history of Japanese Canadians in Quebec by facilitating access to our community archive. The main repository of this archive is the JCCCM History & Archives Committee Special Collection held at the MUA in Montreal. The Nikkei Archives Project aims to enhance the sustainability and accessibility of our community’s archive and grow its contents to increase its availability for present and future generations.
Our work takes place on unceded Indigenous lands in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal.
Our work takes place on unceded Indigenous lands in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre of Montreal and McGill University are both located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, which has long been known as a gathering place for neighbouring Indigenous groups, and today is home to a diverse population of Indigenous and settler peoples. As Japanese Canadians, we recognize that our own experiences of dispossession and uprooting have taken place in the context of longstanding and ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples.