Interview with Patricia "Pat" Adachi (nee Kawashiri) (October 21, 2004)

Title
Interview with Patricia "Pat" Adachi (nee Kawashiri) (October 21, 2004)
Accession number
2010.005
Interviewer
Teri Yamada, Peter Wakayama
Videographer
Tak Yano
Date of Interview
Language
English
Description

Patricia "Pat" Adachi talks about her childhood growing up on Powell Street in Vancouver, BC. She described her parent's immigration to Canada and what her father was doing prior to emigrating to Canada. Her parents owned and managed a rooming house. She talks about schooling, attending Japanese language school, and her interest in baseball. She married Harry Adachi and during WWII, they were interned in Popoff internment camp and Slocan City. During that time, she worked as a teacher. She talks about what happened to the Asahi Baseball team members who were also interned. At the end of WWII, she left Slocan, BC for Stanton, ON and eventually moved to Toronto, ON. She continues talking about what Powell Street is like today and the Wynford Seniors in Toronto. Pat talks about being involved with the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC). She talks about writing about the Asahi Baseball Team. Being the author of Asahi: A Legend in Baseball (1992), she is widely known as an expert on the Asahi. 

Clip from Japanese Canadian Experience Conference: https://vimeo.com/339325186

Format
Videotape
Video File
Length of Interview
58 min
Period
Pre War
Post War
World War II
Event
World War II
Relocation
Forced Removal
Location
Powell Street, Vancouver, BC
Mayne Island, BC
Popoff, BC
Slocan City, BC
Bay Farm, BC
Nanaimo, BC
New Denver, BC
Wynford, Vancouver, BC
Topic
family
employment
education
community
baseball
Anglicanism
marriage
teaching
Asahi Baseball Team
children
discrimination
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC)
Number of Physical Tapes
2
Permission
For uses other than research or private study, researchers must submit a Request for Permission to Publish, Exhibit or Broadcast form.
Citation
Patricia Adachi, interview by Teri Yamada and Peter Wakayama, October 21, 2004, 2010.05, Sedai: The Japanese Canadian Legacy Project Collection, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre.