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Interview with Aiko Murakami (nee Kondo) 2010.014 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s English Redress, World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Internment Steveston, BC, Kaslo, BC, Victoria, BC, New Denver, BC, Toronto, ON, Hamilton, ON, Vancouver, BC, Japan, Sandon, BC, Calgary, AB Momiji, career, family, fishing, education, teaching, language, marriage, The Great Depression, United Church, discrimination, curfew, ghost towns, Japanese language school, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), social life, social activity, festivals
Interview with Connie Sugiyama 2025.011 Post War, 1970s, 1980s, 2020s English Redress, Internment Slocan City, BC, Toronto, ON, Vancouver, BC, Ottawa, ON, USA, Hamilton, ON, Winnipeg, MB, Angler, ON, Japan Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), community, food, sansei, career, discrimination, education, National Association of Japanese Canadian (NAJC), internment camp, War Measures Act, nisei, family, deportation, military, displacement, agriculture, farming, social activity, social life, buildings, issei, yonsei
Interview with Fumi Kono 2011.237 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s English Redress, World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Hiroshima, Japan, Japan, USA, Vancouver, BC, Kitsilano, BC, Fraser Valley, BC, East Lillooet, BC, Hamilton, ON, Ottawa, ON, Toronto, ON children, immigration, United Church, education, discrimination, social activity, Japanese language school, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Prisoner of War (POW), road camps, communities, small business, newspaper, community, Asahi Baseball Team, travel, Buddhism, bathhouse, music, employment, photography, teaching, censorship, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), social life, career, odori, nuns/sisters
Interview with Hajime Sawada 2014.106 Post War English Toronto, ON Japan, family, immigration, work, discrimination, social life, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC)
Interview with Jean Nagata (nee Nobuko) 2010.031 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s English, Japanese World War II Alberta, Canada, Vancouver, BC, Japan, Toronto, ON, Kitsilano, BC, Shaughnessy Heights, BC, Vancouver, BC family, travel, education, church, food, gardening, agriculture, fishing, festivals, temple, living conditions, music, discrimination, bathhouse, Buddhism, family, immigration, Japan, living in Japan, propaganda, social life, travel, United Church, work
Interview with Kay Mitsui 2011.305 Pre War English Redress, World War I, World War II, Relocation, Attack on Pearl Harbour Steveston, BC, Manitoba, Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Vancouver, BC, Japan, Greenwood, BC, Toronto, ON fishing, canneries, work, family, food, children, gardening, housing, bathhouse, living conditions, clothing, community, education, Japanese language school, language, immigration, travel, Japan, issei, marriage, festivals, religion, Christianity, Buddhism, displacement, transportation, farming, relocation centres, beet fields, health, social life, recreation, volunteer, sports
Interview with Kay Shimizu 2012.310 1920s, 1940s English Relocation, Attack on Pearl Harbour Victoria, BC, Vancouver, BC, Ottawa, ON, Toronto, ON, New Denver, BC fishing, canneries, logging, education, children, language, church, Buddhism, United Church, transportation, career, Japanese language school, social life, gardening, family, festivals, social activity, religion, Anglicanism, food, newspaper, propaganda, living conditions, recreation, marriage, work, discrimination, enemy alien, displacement, relocation centres
Interview with Kuni Fukusaka (nee Noguchi) 2011.329 Pre War English Internment Vancouver, BC, Japan, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Kitsilano, BC, Toronto, ON, Christina Lake, BC, Calgary, AB, Bay Farm, BC, Guelph, ON nisei, Anglicanism, Buddhism, education, social life, family, social activity, Japanese language school, career, newspaper, logging, education, work, discrimination, food, fishing, community, living in Japan, British Columbia Security Commission, self-supporting camps, dance, living conditions, Momiji, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), internment camp, sports, marriage, housing, living conditions
Interview with Mary Akiko Kawasaki (nee Mori) 2011.259 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1930s, 1940s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s English Redress, World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Vancouver, BC, Fairview, BC, Angler, ON, Sandon, BC, Hamilton, ON, Toronto, ON, Japan, New Denver, BC, Greenwood, BC immigration, employment, small business, marriage, children, education, family, community, Buddhism, housing, Japanese language school, social activity, festivals, The Great Depression, transportation, Christianity, baseball, food, Jewish community, volunteer, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), social life, Prisoner of War (POW), sports, recreation, religion, farming, fishing, discrimination, newspaper
Interview with Mary Matsui 2010.059 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 2000s, 2010s English Japan, Alberta, Canada, Kitsilano, BC, Vancouver, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Toronto, ON Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), work, immigration, small business, Japanese language school, education, discrimination, curfew, relocation centres, Momiji, social activity, social life, education, career, religion, food, teaching, communities, issei, nisei
Interview with Roy Akira Nagamatsu 2010.074 World War II, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s English Redress, World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Hamilton, ON, New Denver, BC, Montreal, QC, Toronto, ON agriculture, detention camps, displacement, family, funeral, food, ghost towns, issei, Japan, logging, marriage, military, nisei, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), social life, sports, travel, work, Jewish community, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), religion, fishing, road camps, health, deportation, British Columbia Security Commission, employment, newspaper, Nikkei Voice newspaper, sansei, yonsei
Interview with Roy Kazuyoshi Nakagawa 2019.205 World War II English Internment Ocean Falls, BC, Slocan City, BC, Ontario, Canada, Japan, Vancouver, BC, Winnipeg, MB education, career, teaching, family, logging, immigration, language, living conditions, employment, discrimination, gardening, housing, food, community, Japanese language school, recreation, church, social life, Christianity, martial arts, sports, curfew, displacement, United Church, dance, social activity, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC)
Interview with Setsuko Thurlow 2010-073 Post War, World War II English World War II, Atomic Bomb Hiroshima, Japan, Nagasaki, Japan, Toronto, ON, Port Hope, ON living in Japan, family, buildings, housing, gardening, military, propaganda, food, work, children, education, social life, volunteer, travel, teaching
Interview with Tin Teruji Goto 2011.322 Pre War English Japan, Burnaby, BC, Vancouver, BC, Calgary, AB, Lethbridge, AB, Slocan City, BC, Prince Rupert, BC, New Denver, BC, Lemon Creek, BC, Popoff, BC, Bay Farm, BC, New Westminster, BC, London, ON, Chatham, ON, Hamilton, ON, Toronto, ON, Bridge River, BC, Osaka, Japan family, Japan, farming, fishing, housing, living conditions, community, internment camp, British Columbia Security Commission, bathhouse, Anglicanism, education, nuns/sisters, church, recreation, communities, sports, Japanese language school, road camps, canneries, social life, food, radio, agriculture, children, displacement, logging, teaching, discrimination, Buddhism, language, dance, odori, baseball, Japan town, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC)
Interview with Tom Takashima - Nipponia Home 2012.123 Post War English World War II Toronto, ON, Vancouver, BC, New Westminster, BC, Victoria, BC social life, issei, nisei, education, discrimination, Christianity, United Church, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), displacement, work, farming, education, immigration, marriage, The Great Depression, fishing
Interview with Toshiko Usami 2011.267 Pre War English World War II Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Vancouver, BC, Sandon, BC, Lemon Creek, BC, Japan, Toronto, ON Japan, religion, family, relocation centres, housing, education, Japanese language school, small business, commerce, food, social life, religion, community, education, road camps, curfew, clothing, festivals, living conditions, work, travel, health, employment, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC)
Interview with Yaeko Fujimoto 2010.012 Pre War, Post War English, Japanese Osaka, Japan, Toronto, ON social life, dance, marriage, farming, agriculture, teaching
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