Interview with John Yoshioka

John Yoshioka was born in Vancouver, BC. He talks about his family's emigration history to Canada. Their family also had a small business on Powell Street and John talks about his childhood. John's father worked as a minister and was employed with the church and was educated at the University of Toronto. He talks about moving to Toronto and then to Kelowna, BC. His father was working in Lethbridge, AB. He talks about his father being respected in the Japanese Canadian community especially because he could speak English, his father having a special pass to be able to visit men in road camps. During the war, John talks about censorship in his university application correspondence and being rejected based on discrimination. Eventually, he attended Victoria College in Toronto for studies in the medical field. He talks about discrimination he faced from professors. After the end of WWII, John recalls being told to sign a document that would send him to Japan. He talks about his parents' anger because they were still identified with Japan. He also talks about how the Kelowna experience was different from Vancouver. After that, John was employed as a doctor in Greenwood, ON. He got married to Josie Yoshioka. After that he applied to UBC for a post-graduate degree. After that, they moved to Montreal due to John's employment.