A new exhibit at the Railway and Forestry Museum will honour the local Indo-Canadian population. Starting this weekend the museum will open the “History of Indo-Canadians in the Forest Industry.” Curator Katherine Carlson says it will focus on the challenges of early pioneers up to the 1970’s.
“So right from when the first individuals came across or immigrated to Canada,” says Carlson, “so from there to the Komagatu Maru incident in 1914 through to early immigration, and then into what sort of jobs were offered to the first Inidians when they arrived.”
Carlson says the exhibit also focuses on unions and other ways Indo-Canadians helped develop the area. The exhibit is open until November 22.