The Royal BC Museum will present a new lens on the logging industry’s history – specifically the Punjabi point of view – through a multi-media station.

The multi-media station is one result of a long-term partnership between the Royal BC Museum and the South Asian Studies Institute (SASI) at the University of the Fraser Valley, in consultation with the Punjabi Canadian Legacy Project Advisory Committee.

“We are pleased to be a part of this historic moment that recognizes the contributions of Punjabi Canadians in the forestry sector of BC,” said Satwinder Bains, Director of SASI. “At the South Asian Studies Institute we believe in our collective responsibility to bring forward hitherto omitted or erased histories of all peoples into the provincial record.”

The museum interviewed Punjabi Canadian loggers and millworkers about their recollections about immigration, work and life to create a Punjabi Canadian Legacy Project (PCLP) that preserves, explores and shares the contributions they have made to the history of BC and Canada.

The Royal BC Museum wanted to add more diversity to its displays.

“It is critical for the Royal BC Museum to partner with diverse communities to identify and then broadcast the stories of those who have been left out or written out of our collective history,” said Prof. Jack Lohman, CEO of the Royal BC Museum.

 For more information, please visit  https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/about/explore/centre-arrivals/punjabi-intercultural-history-project