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Interview with Teruo “Ted” and Joyce Izukawa 2010.068 Pre War, World War II, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s English Redress, World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Vancouver, BC, Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Mission, BC, Fraser Valley, BC, New Westminster, BC, Alberta, Canada, Ontario, Canada, Chatham, ON, USA, Toronto, ON, Japan Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), Japan town, education, career, church, Buddhism, beet fields, Japanese language school, marriage, transportation, curfew, displacement, discrimination, living conditions, teaching, Asahi Baseball Team, children, Nikkei Voice newspaper, National Association of Japanese Canadian (NAJC), Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), festivals, odori
Interview with Arthur Shogo Kobayashi 2011.327 Pre War English Attack on Pearl Harbour Japan, Vancouver, BC, Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Lemon Creek, BC, Petawawa, ON, Toronto, ON Japan, military, immigration, discrimination, picture bride, work, family, community, religion, recreation, Japanese language school, housing, gardening, fishing, War Measures Act, Asahi Baseball Team, baseball, police, displacement, road camps, living conditions, festivals, Buddhism, Ikebana, fishing, detention camps, deportation, travel, agriculture, internment camp, odori, health, volunteer
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 Elsie Toguri (nee Iwasaki) 2013.035 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1930s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Vancouver, BC, New Denver, BC, Toronto, ON, Japan, Ontario, Canada, Nelson, BC nisei, newspaper, teaching, picture bride, community, communities, immigration, sports, odori, dance, ghost towns, curfew, religion, nuns/sisters, music, police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), family, education, marriage, radio, food, funeral, Buddhism, United Church, Anglicanism, language, discrimination, displacement
Interview with Fumiko Kanbara (nee Shimoda) 2011.303 World War II English World War II Vancouver Island, BC, Vancouver, BC, Slocan City, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Sandon, BC, New Denver, BC, Angler, ON, Victoria, BC, New Westminster, BC, Hamilton, ON, Japan logging, family, travel, small business, work, commerce, Asahi Baseball Team, community, Japanese language school, Japan town, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), detention camps, living conditions, discrimination, internment camp, displacement, censorship, marriage, housing, bathhouse, gardening, food, deportation, education, recreation, fishing, immigration, travel, religion, health, small business
Interview with Henry Shimizu 2010.026 World War II, 1940s, 1950s English World War II, Forced Removal, Internment New Denver, BC, Alberta, Canada, Slocan City, BC, Prince Rupert, BC, Kaslo, BC, Popoff, BC, Bay Farm, BC, Lemon Creek, BC, Sandon, BC, Greenwood, BC displacement, baseball, social activity, United Church, education, internment camps, Asahi Baseball Team, recreation, bathhouse, enemy alien, gardening, sports, British Columbia Security Commission, religion, Buddhism, food, odori, fishing, housing, living conditions, logging, nuns/sisters, radio, detention camps
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 Manabu Doi 2011.265 Post War English Japan, Hiroshima, Japan, Victoria, BC, Cumberland, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Slocan City, BC, Lemon Creek, BC, Toronto, ON The Great Depression, work, living conditions, food, gardening, living conditions, education, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), British Columbia Security Commission, War Measures Act, discrimination, military, displacement, travel, sports, agriculture, food
Interview with Mary Yaeko Ebata (nee Mori) 2012.116 World War II English World War II Vancouver, BC, Kelowna, BC, Japan, Vancouver, BC, Slocan City, BC, Bay Farm, BC family, Japan, Kika (Nikkei educated in Japan), living in Japan, family, picture bride, farming, agriculture, community, education, festivals, agriculture, community, food, Buddhism, internment camp, sports, social activity, nisei, curfew, living conditions, displacement, British Columbia Security Commission, police, nuns/sisters, employment, community, sports, Buddhism, marriage
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 Sidney "Sid" Ikeda 2010.023 Pre War, Post War, World War II English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Centennial, Internment Vancouver, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Tashme, BC, New Denver, BC road camps, education, career, communities, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), social activity, displacement
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
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