[VILLA CHARITIES NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2010: Columbus Centre receives CHRP grant for internment project]
The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, recently approved Columbus Centre’s proposal to the Community Historical Recognition Program, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Canada to commemorate and educate about the internments that occurred in 1940.
A comprehensive inventory of relevant print, audio, visual and electronic resources will be collected and catalogued. In addition, personal memories of the period will be preserved as a resource database of video/oral histories.
To read full article and related articles on the internment, download file below. View pages: cover, 18, and 19.
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- Exhibit Opening Sept. 19, 2014 - Windsor Community Museum
- POST-EVENT RELEASE - June 28, 2013: Columbus Centre unveils Riflessi: Italian Canadian Internment Memorial
- MEDIA ADVISORY: June 26 2013 - Columbus Centre of Toronto unveils Riflessi, an original commissioned
- INVITE: Monument unveiling of Riflessi: Italian Canadian Internment Memorial - JUNE 26 2013
- NEWS RELEASE: May 14, 2013 - Harley Valentine commissioned to build new monument, Riflessi
- VILLA CHARITIES NEWSLETTER SPRING 2013: Minister Kenney's celebration party for the Community Historical Recognition Program
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