School Library Campaign

The late Dr. Kage's selected writings provide a community-based perspective of what life was like for Japanese Canadians in Vancouver. His letters, articles, reports, and even a couple of traditional stories, complement the Grades 5 and 10 Social Studies curriculum where it covers the forced removal of Japanese Canadians from their homes to Internment Camps during World War II.

Bill Lightbown was a renowned political leader for 60 years. A founder and President of the United Native Nations, a tireless ally to his wife Lavina White through her presidency of the Haida Nation, and a powerful advocate for all Aboriginal people who took a stand to advance themselves. His memoir will add meaningfully to First Peoples classes.

Bea Silver's childhood memoir was developed in partnership with the Abbotsford School District's "Art Activism" high school painting class. Bea shared her stories with the class, and the students painted scenes which illustrate this book. Indian Residential School has never been explained so clearly and suitably for a high school reader.

Memoir of a boy who survived the WWII internment camps for the Dutch in Japanese-occupied Indonesia, and thorough research and documentation of the colonial situation there, this book is set among the Toraja people. It shares a beautiful culture, the dilemma of a linguist in a missionary situation, and incredible details of the Indonesian War of Independence, as well as the events of the Asia-Pacific War leading in to World War II. It lends itself to high school Social Studies classes.

1980s and 90s East Vancouver was a place of all sorts. Centered at the revolutionary co-op cafe La Quena (started by Chilean refugees), Alan Fossen has here captured the beautiful faces and hopeful arts of the international Commercial Drive neighbourhoods. The book would be an ideal gift for every photography, art and yearbook class.

Fossen's essays situate the images in a broad movement for social, economic, and environmental change.

This journal comes out of collections donated by veteran Indigenous politicians.   

  A curated collection in every edition, these journals will each fill a sizable gap in authentic readings available to inform the restitution process between settler society and Indigenous societies today. 

  As well as the written records, interviews with Elders and leaders reveal circumstances leading up to political movements, court actions and roadblocks, and conditions in their communities at the time.