The Central BC Railway & Forestry Industry Museum Society offers a glimpse into the lives of Indo-Canadians in the forestry industry with a new exhibit from Sept. 30 to Nov. 22.
A History of Indo-Canadians in the Forest Industry: A Journey of Challenges and Triumphs from Early Pioneers to the 1960s and 70s features a series of interviews with prominent Indo-Canadians from Prince George's Sikh community.
The exhibit also delves into immigration during the 1900s, innovations in forestry, along with labour movements and unions.
"The goal of the exhibit is to honour and recognize elders in the Indo-Canadian community who participated in the forestry industry in the 1960s and 70s," said Katherine Carlson, the Railway and Forestry Museum's curator. "To understand this, we had to look at the history of what it meant to take the initial journey, away from the familiar and into the unknown."
Research for the exhibit was made possible through grants from the Prince George Community Foundation and the Corporate Initiatives and Multiculturalism Division of the Multiculturalism Ministry of International Trade.
The Railway and Forestry Museum's winter hours are Tuesdays to Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
