MEMORY IN THE VALLEY
David Campion & Sandra Shields

Opposing narratives of settlement in British Columbia

This installation in the old Chilliwack City Hall pairs nine landscape photographs with historical text in backlit panels that mimic tourist “points of interest.” The panels stand in front of windows looking out at what was once grassland. A permanent display of photographs of Chilliwack’s colonial pioneers hangs on the north wall of the gallery. When these settlers arrived, many of them from the same European countries as Campion and Shields' own ancestors, the land they claimed was already occupied by a complex network of communities known as the Stó:lō.

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