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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a name="OLE_LINK1"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">November 25, 2015
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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The Province of BC recognizes the Royal BC Museum for its work highlighting multiculturalism<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">VICTORIA, BC –
</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">BC’s human history is as complex, diverse and dynamic as its ecology, with people from virtually every region of the globe settling
in and contributing to the province – even before the province existed as an entity.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">To tell the diverse stories of British Columbia, the Royal BC Museum strives to explore and
promote historical narratives from (and about) many different cultural groups. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">On November 20, the Royal BC Museum’s efforts were recognized at the Province of British Columbia’s
2015 BC Multicultural Awards, where the museum and archives was presented with an award for Multicultural Excellence in Government.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">“It was an honour to attend the ceremony and accept the award on behalf of the Royal BC Museum,”
said the Royal BC Museum’s Executive Financial Officer, Melissa Sands. “The Royal BC Museum has created outstanding exhibitions, educational programming and outreach initiatives to promote knowledge of BC’s diversity to the public.”<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The award recognizes a number of Royal BC Museum initiatives over the past few years.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">In 2013, the Royal BC Museum
</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">opened the exhibition
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/exhibitions/past/tradition/"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Tradition in Felicities: Celebrating 155 Years of Victoria’s Chinatown</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">,</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">in partnership with Victoria’s Chinatown community. The exhibition was also showcased in China twice in 2015.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">In May 2014, on the centennial anniversary of the Komagata Maru episode, the Royal BC Museum, in partnership with the University of
Victoria, hosted a series of events to discuss and reflect upon the lessons learned.
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">In June 2014, to celebrate BC’s status as a language hotspot (34 First Nations languages are spoken here), the Royal BC Museum created
the </span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/our-living-languages/"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Our Living Languages: First Peoples’ Voices in BC</span></i></a><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">exhibition in partnership with First Peoples Cultural Council and their advisors from Nations around the province.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">In August 2014, the Royal BC Museum joined 13 other Canadian institutions in the
</span><a href="http://www.landscapesofinjustice.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Landscapes of Injustice</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""> project to conduct
research and develop a travelling exhibition about the forced dispossession of homes and properties owned by Japanese Canadian citizens during the Second World War.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">In 2015, the Royal BC Museum has developed school outreach kits, website articles and other materials to commemorate the
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/assets/2015-10-29-Chinese-Historical-Wrongs-pathways.pdf"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Chinese Historical Wrongs</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">,
in support of the BC Government initiative to address the wrongs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Most recently, the day after the award ceremony, the Royal BC Museum invited members of the
Indo Canadian community <a name="OLE_LINK2">from the Lower Mainland, the Fraser Valley and Vancouver Island to stage an “</a></span></strong><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/assets/EDITED-2015-11-21-Indo-Canadian-history-intervention.pdf"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">intervention</span></a><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">”
in the Logging Exhibit in the Modern History gallery to reframe the historical record to include their poignant narrative</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">s of
logging and forestry in British Columbia.</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Many of these multicultural stories are shared on the museum and archives’ online Learning Portal (</span><a href="http://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">),
including articles about the <i>Tradition in Felicities</i> and <i>Our Living Languages</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""> exhibitions, and two articles about the Chinese Historical Wrongs: “</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Early
Chinese Canadian Experiences in British Columbia” and “Acknowledging Past Wrongs.”
</span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The Royal BC Museum was one of five champions of diversity to receive an award at the 2015 Multicultural
Awards ceremony. More information about the award and the other recipients can be found at:
</span></strong><a href="https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2015MIT0053-001929"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2015MIT0053-001929</span></a><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">This year the Royal BC Museum has won a number of accolades for its work and its visitor service,
including a second year as TripAdvisor’s number one museum in Canada, winning the American Alliance of Museums Excellence in Exhibition Competition, and Expedia’s announcement that the Royal BC Museum is one of the five Best Canadian Museums.
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<a name="OLE_LINK5"></a><a name="OLE_LINK12"><b>About the Royal BC Museum</b></a></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xbodytext" style="margin-top:.1pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The Royal BC Museum explores the province’s human history and natural history, advances new knowledge and understanding of
BC, and provides a dynamic forum for discussion and a place for reflection. The museum and archives celebrate culture and history, telling the stories of BC in ways that enlighten, stimulate and inspire. Looking to the future, the Royal BC Museum will be a
refreshed, modern museum, extending its reach far beyond Victoria as a world-class cultural venue and repository of digital treasures.
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