We are pleased to receive several grants to assist with our collections cataloguing and digitization project. Thank you to the Irving K Barber BC History Digitization Project, The Museum Assistance Program of Canadian Heritage, Young Canada Works and Canada Summer Jobs for their support.  Through the project, museum staff will scan over 2000 photographs, and catalogue and photograph 500 objects. The project will also link our database to the museum website. By the end of December, our collections will be accessible online from anywhere in the world!

On behalf of the NNMHC directors, staff, visitors, students, and community members, we thank the many volunteers who have given so generously of their time over the past year. We rely on countless volunteers to help run our programs and events, including the education program, weekly programs, reception desk, museum programs, and more.

Volunteer appreciation party June 13, 2010

We would like to say goodbye and thank you to our most amazing intern Carmen Lam, who was with us from January-June 2010. Carmen joined us via the YWCA Youth Eco Internship Program and we will be forever grateful for her contributions, including working on many of our special events and Museum exhibits, and kick-starting our social media marketing activities. We will continue to work with Carmen on other projects, and we know she will be very successful in whatever career path she pursues.

At our 2010 Annual General Meeting on April 24, a slate of 24 directors was elected, as follows: Justin Ault, Yoko Banks, Robert Banno, Ruth Coles, Stan Fukawa, Akiko Gomyo, Gordon Goto, Masa Haraguchi, Mitsuo Hayashi (Chairman), Naoto Horita, Gordon Kadota, Paul Kariya, Cathy Makihara (co-Secretary), David Masuhara, Derral Moriyama, Craig Natsuhara (President), Dan Nomura, Carrie Okano, Dennis Shikaze (Treasurer), Henry Shimizu, Avalon Tagami (Vice-President), Fred Yada, Sam Yamamoto, Leslie Wada (co-Secretary). At the AGM, we said goodbye to departing directors Reverend Orai Fujikawa, Sian Tasaka and long-time and founding director Robert Nimi and thank them all for their time and commitment to the NNMHC. We welcomed new directors Akiko Gomyo, Masa Haraguchi, Cathy Makihara and Leslie Wada.

Next time you are in the centre, check out the newly re-purposed exhibit on the famous team now on display in our 2^nd floor hallway.

Thank you to all of our generous donors for their ongoing support.

We bid farewell to our Museum Intern, Carmen Lam, who in her last month has been busy arranging and describing the Canadian Centennial Project fonds, donated through Tamio Wakayama. Thes fonds largely consist of images gathered for the making of the Dream of Riches book and exhibitions. The images are exquisite and once catalogued and digitized will be a gem in the museum’s collection.

The museum recently received funding from the Irving K Barber BC Digitization Project to scan half our historic photograph collections. This work is being done with the help of two summer students; Luyi Wang and Erin Taniguchi. Their work is  making the collections come alive and increasing accessibility for all. They are predominantly focusing on the digitization of Asahi-related donations including the Ken and Rose Kutsukake collection.