The Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society (IMSS) was established in 1976, when an increasingly diverse immigrant population started moving north due to the high wages paid in jobs in forestry and mining. As more immigrant children attended the local schools, the number of incidents involving racism rose steadily. Consequently, a group of concerned citizens began a local immigrant-serving agency with the assistance of the Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia (ISSofBC). more... See more text