2025 – Linda Kawamoto Reid

Linda Kawamoto Reid is a historian and community leader with a longstanding commitment to preserving and sharing Japanese Canadian history. For more than 13 years, she has been deeply involved with the Japanese Canadian War Memorial Committee, serving as both a member and chair, where she led major fundraising efforts to restore the Japanese Canadian War Memorial in Stanley Park and helped document the contributions of Japanese Canadian First World War volunteer recruits previously unrecognized by the Canadian government. From 2007 to 2023, Linda worked as a Reference Archivist at the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre, contributing to national exhibits, publications, heritage tours, and research initiatives focused on internment, displacement, and dispossession. She currently serves as the BC Heritage Sites Coordinator with the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society and continues to play a vital role in preserving and advancing Japanese Canadian history and heritage.