Pyrocumulus clouds from wildfire in Fraser Canyon loom high over B.C.

When Gail Asper started drawing up the initial plans for the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in the early 2000s, her efforts prompted numerous ethnic communities and political interest groups to start vying for special consideration. Indigenous leaders wanted a particular focus on missing and murdered women. Ukrainian Canadian groups campaigned for acknowledgement of Canada’s imprisonment of their people during the First World War, and of later Soviet Union attacks against Ukraine in the 1930s. By the time the Winnipeg-based museum opened in 2014, it had seemingly become a magnet for...