Beacon Hill Park
Park in Victoria, British ColumbiaWikipedia
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Oct 4, 2026
Jordan ArmstrongHOST
A powerful new monument has been unveiled to honour the challenges faced by BC's Japanese community during the Second World War.
Jordan ArmstrongHOST
The monument near Victoria's Beacon Hill Park carries the names of the 22,000 Japanese Canadians forcibly uprooted from their homes during the war and dispossessed of almost all of their belongings.
Jordan ArmstrongHOST
More than half of the internees were born in Canada but had their loyalty questioned and were caught up in the middle of the conflict.
speaker_22SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I vividly remember the day, March the 17th, St. Patrick's Day, 1942.
speaker_1HOST
Around Vancouver Island A new monument in Victoria is serving as a poignant reminder of a difficult chapter in British Columbia's history.
speaker_1HOST
The Japanese-Canadian monument opened this weekend at Academy Close, between Beacon Hill Park and Street, and features the names of over 22,000 people who were unjustly removed from their homes during the Second World War.
speaker_1HOST
many families travel to attend the dedication ceremony it acknowledges the forced relocation and loss of property experienced by japanese canadians with names listed according to where they were originally living including hundreds from victoria and main island the monument's design includes granite slabs etched with these names a powerful testament to a time when homes businesses and personal belongings were seized and sold off It's an important space for reflection and remembrance.
speaker_1HOST
in provincial news.
speaker_2NARRATOR
A new monument in Victoria is serving as a poignant reminder of a difficult chapter in British Columbia's history.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The Japanese Canadian Monument opened this weekend at Academy Close, between Beacon Hill Park and Street, and features the names of over twenty-two thousand people who were unjustly removed from their homes during the Second World War.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Many families traveled to attend the dedication ceremony.
speaker_2NARRATOR
It acknowledges the forced relocation and loss of property experienced by Japanese Canadians, with names listed according to where they were originally living, including hundreds from Victoria and Main Island.
CarolHOST
Well, I shouldn't say little.
CarolHOST
Beacon Hill Park is walkable, or you can take the bus.
CarolHOST
I love Beacon Hill Park because right next to Beacon Hill Park is the Beacon Hill Drive-In, and it has the best soft serve ice cream cones.
LeilaGUEST
In Beacon Hill Park, there are lush, manicured English-style gardens, peacocks wandering around, and, um, they have a, a fabulous splash pad, giant sculpture of a watering can that kids love.
LeilaGUEST
That's at the corner of Douglas and Simcoe Streets.
CarolHOST
I love [laughs] going over to the giant watering can, holding my ice cream and watching that giant watering can.
Carolyn HoweSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I teach music and I teach a classroom in an elementary school at South Park, just downtown.
Adam StirlingHOST
It's across the street from Beacon Hill Park, for those of you who don't know the school.
Carolyn HoweSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But currently I'm also out of
Adam StirlingHOST
the...
Adam StirlingHOST
We saw it any number of times at the Victoria Council table.
Adam StirlingHOST
Horse carriages, the Sir John A. Macdonald statue taken down, the 24-7 camping debate, Beacon Hill Park.
Adam StirlingHOST
And yes, I was in the center of all of these things, too.
Adam StirlingHOST
That's why I know quite a bit about them.
Adam StirlingHOST
Uh, let's keep going.
Adam StirlingHOST
Mary writes, "My fear," it says, "is drug users will simply move out of downtown and other neighborhoods or Beacon Hill Park," or BHP.
Adam StirlingHOST
I assume that's Beacon Hill Park.
Adam StirlingHOST
Dexter writes, um, "Sigh.
Adam StirlingHOST
To do their drugs." [sighs] How do we say this? The reasoning behind allowing and normalizing, uh, drug use in general was the fear that people hiding their drug use, because they didn't wanna go to jail, would overdose, and that opportunity to save them with naloxone would be missed because, again, they'd be hiding themselves 'cause they don't wanna get in trouble.
Adam StirlingHOST
And then it was the COVID response.
Adam StirlingHOST
And it was the camping in Beacon Hill Park and the 24-7 camping and the ongoing attempt by the city of Victoria to shoulder the burden for the entire region and anybody else who might show up to end homelessness.
Adam StirlingHOST
It was issue after issue after issue after issue.
Adam StirlingHOST
In hindsight, created this massive amount of political cover for other governments just by not being what Victoria was.