Asian Heritage Month Okanagan

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Thank you to AHM (Dr. Hua Meng and all committee members) for giving me the opportunity to organize a memorable tour to go and see the Nikkei Internment Memorial (Museum) Center in New Denver. The tour started in Kelowna via Highway 33: Rock Creek, Grandforks/Christina Lake, Castlegar, Nelson,(Picnic lunch at Kokanee Provincial Park, stay overnight at Ainsworth Hot Springs Resort, then to New Denver (tour at the NIMC Museum), Picnic at the Kohan Reflection Gardnen, Continuin...g to Nakusp, took the Arrow Lake Ferry to Revelstoke, Stopping at Three Valley Gap for washroom, scenery and pictures, Dutchmen Dairy in Sicamouse for washroom & ice cream then Vernon to Kelowna. It was my first time to organize this big group tour. It was fun having 57 people including me and the bus driver. Everyone was happy and they would like to have another tour in the future. I thank everyone for joining the tour and thank you for all their cooperation. This tour could have not been successful without good group like this. And lastly, thank you to our bus driver, Albert from South Okanagan Charter Bus Line. Thank you to all the photographers. I appreciate all your photos.

AHM TOUR, AUGUST 18 2019, The Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre tells the story of over 20,000 Japanese Canadians who were stripped of their civil rights, labeled enemy aliens and uprooted from their coastal homes during World War II. Located on the site of a wartime internment camp, the original buildings, period artifacts, interpretive displays and Heiwa Teien garden chronicle this extraordinary episode in Canadian history.