Feature Exhibitions
REFRAMED: UNDERSTANDING NEW WEST THROUGH PHOTOS
New Westminster Museum and Archives holds 230,000 photographs documenting scenes from the city’s history and its people. By critically examining photographs, both familiar and unseen, we can better understand the role photographs may play in creating a more genuine picture of New Westminster’s history. We can look again and reframe our knowledge about the city by highlighting its marginalized stories.
This exhibition is part of the 2025 Capture Photography Festival Selected Exhibition Program.
MEET LEE SING YEN
Gallery 2 (Museum at Anvil Centre)
On July 1, 1923, the Canadian government passed a law designed to stop Chinese immigration to Canada. Over the next 24 years, only 14 new Chinese immigrants were allowed into Canada. To commemorate this event, we invite you to meet Lee Sing Yen – an ordinary person who lived in New Westminster for 50 years and endured the consequences of Canada’s historic, anti-Chinese legislation.
