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Interview with Alma Sumiko Miike (nee Kawano) 2010.066 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Okanagan, BC, Hiroshima, Japan, Victoria, BC, Salt Spring Island, BC, Alberta, Canada, Montreal, QC, Toronto, ON, Kelowna, BC work, food, festivals, road camps, beet fields, Momiji
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 Bruce Kuwabara 2023.002 1990s English Toronto, ON buildings, career, community, education, employment, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), martial arts, recreation, sansei, small business, temple, work
Interview with Frank Moritsugu 2010.029 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s English Redress, World War II, Relocation, Internment Port Alice, BC, Vancouver, BC, Kitsilano, BC, Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Yard Creek, BC, Okanagan, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Slocan City, BC, Tashme, BC, Kaslo, BC, Toronto, ON, Hamilton, ON, Japan, Manitoba, Canada, Montreal, QC, Ontario, Canada, Ottawa, ON, USA, Steveston, BC family, nisei, church, agriculture, travel, children, Anglicanism, police, mining, employment, sansei, issei, photography, men-only work camps, military, self-supporting camps, baseball, gardening, community, fishing, commerce, internment camps, bathhouse, social activity, children, temple, food, ghost towns, dance, martial arts, sports, Asahi Baseball Team, career, education, employment, issei, Japan, living in Japan, newspaper, Nikkei Voice newspaper, radio, sansei, teaching, work, military, discrimination, Prisoner of War (POW), Christianity, internment camp, yonsei, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), deportation, festivals, language, detention camps, religion, Momiji, Nikkei Voice newspaper
Interview with Fred Sasaki 2010.004 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1900s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Hiroshima, Japan, Calgary, AB, Petawawa, ON, Vancouver, BC, Toronto, ON, Japan, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Kaslo, BC, Angler, ON education, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Prisoner of War (POW), logging, work, Jewish community, social activity, sports, discrimination
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 Gloria and Mits Sumiya 2010.062 Pre War, World War II, 1930s, 1940s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Japan, Vancouver Island, BC, Vancouver, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, New Denver, BC, Slocan City, BC, Bay Farm, BC, Sandon, BC, Ontario, Canada, Toronto, ON, Angler, ON, Neys, ON, Tashme, BC, Popoff, BC, Lemon Creek, BC, Bay Farm, BC family, employment, education, Japanese language school, community, social activity, small business, bathhouse, logging, work, transportation, The Great Depression, food, discrimination, internment camp, Buddhism, housing, ghost towns, road camps, British Columbia Security Commission, teaching, nisei, War Measures Act, religion, Christianity, Prisoner of War (POW), military, curfew, travel, language, transportation, issei, living conditions, recreation, marriage
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 Harold Miwa 2011.279 English Vancouver, BC, Japan, New Denver, BC, Kaslo, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Tashme, BC, Hope, BC, Hamilton, ON, Toronto, ON, Neys, ON small business, agriculture, education, issei, living in Japan, food, career, work, teaching, employment, living conditions, health, logging, internment camp, dance, music, community, recreation, martial arts, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), baseball, children, curfew, police, Asahi Baseball Team, language, fishing, volunteer, immigration, enemy alien, housing, family, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), United Church, Buddhism
Interview with Henry Sugiyama 2010.016 World War II, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s English Redress, Relocation, Forced Removal Vancouver, BC, Toronto, ON work, education, career, small business, Jewish community
Interview with Honourable John Allen Fraser 2014.266  Post War, World War II, World War I English Redress, World War II, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Vancouver, BC, Ottawa, ON, Japan Japan, communities, discrimination, employment, education, family, immigration, internment camps, logging, work
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 Jean Peasah (nee Kobayashi) 2010.063 Pre War, Post War, World War II English Redress, World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Vancouver, BC, Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Angler, ON, Lemon Creek, BC, Popoff, BC, Slocan City, BC, Japan, Osaka, Japan, New Denver, BC, Montreal, QC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Petawawa, ON Japan town, community, social activity, church, work, fishing, discrimination, education, Japanese language school, housing, British Columbia Security Commission, internment camp, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), food, language, family, military, travel, ghost towns, marriage, religion, recreation, employment, Prisoner of War (POW)
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 Kazue (Kay) Fujiwara (nee Toyota) (July 19, 2011) 2011.347 Pre War, Post War, World War II English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour Duncan, BC, Victoria, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Slocan City, BC, Toronto, ON, Popoff, BC family, photography, education, work, logging, Japanese language school, recreation, dance, discrimination, food, community, sports, internment camp, social activity, employment, marriage, issei, nisei, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), small business
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 Kunio Suyama 2011.235 Pre War, Post War, World War II English Redress, World War II, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Vancouver Island, BC, Japan, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Lemon Creek, BC, Toronto, ON, Angler, ON farming, mining, logging, immigration, education, marriage, food, children, social activity, baseball, Japanese language school, community, housing, living conditions, internment camp, Asahi Baseball Team, bathhouse, newspaper, relocation centres, military, language, employment, work, Buddhism, temple, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), festivals, martial arts, Kika (Nikkei educated in Japan), Japan town, community
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 Marty Kobayashi 2022.008 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2020s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Deportation, Centennial, Internment Vancouver, BC, Steveston, BC, Manitoba, Canada, Toronto, ON, Japan, Hiroshima, Japan Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), work, beet fields, Nikkei Voice newspaper, Jewish community, food, festivals, career, discrimination, martial arts, Japanese language school, volunteer
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 Minoru "Min" Yatabe 2010.017 Pre War, World War II, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s English Redress, World War II, Relocation, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Kitsilano, BC, London, ON, Ontario, Canada, Toronto, ON, Vancouver, BC career, military, family, work, employment, education
Interview with Mitsu Ito 2010.008 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Deportation, Internment Japan, Mission, BC, Haney, BC, Alberta, Canada, Hiroshima, Japan, Toronto, ON farming, work, Buddhism, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC)
Interview with Patricia "Pat" Adachi (nee Kawashiri) (April 14, 2011) 2011.349 Pre War, Post War English World War II, Attack on Pearl Harbour Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Popoff, BC, Japan, Kitsilano, BC family, immigration, education, work, employment, agriculture, Anglicanism, Christianity, church, nuns/sisters, religion, Shinto, dance, housing, small business, sports, baseball, language, Japanese language school, food, community, bathhouse, Asahi Baseball Team, social activity, marriage, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), issei, teaching, education
Interview with Peter Wakayama 2010.020 Pre War, Post War, World War II English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Internment Hastings Park, Vancouver, Kelowna, BC, Chatham, ON, Toronto, ON, New Denver, BC, Fraser Valley, BC, Japan work, education, career
Interview with Rose Kutsukake (nee Taipei) 2010.003 Pre War, Post War, World War II English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Internment Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Vancouver, BC, Slocan City, BC, Toronto, ON marriage, Asahi Baseball Team, work, housing
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 Rubiko "Ruby" Fukumoto (nee Morita) (February 18, 2009) 2010.013 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1920s, 1940s English Japan, Calgary, AB, Victoria, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Bay Farm, BC, Chatham, ON, New Denver, BC, Toronto, ON issei, Japanese language school, road camps, recreation, social activity, dance, sports, relocation centres, internment camp, work, employment, community, family, travel, volunteer
Interview with Rubiko "Ruby" Fukumoto (nee Morita) (July 13, 2011) 2011.350 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s English Redress, World War II, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Alberta, Canada, Calgary, AB, Japan, Victoria, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Slocan City, BC, Bay Farm, BC, Revelstoke, BC, Chatham, ON, Ontario, Canada, Toronto, ON immigration, Japan, family, work, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), Jewish community, career, dance, farming, discrimination, small business, church, community, education, employment, language, marriage, housing, social activity, road camps, bathhouse, Japanese language school
Interview with Sam Yamada 2010.001 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s English World War II, Forced Removal, Internment Vancouver, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Toronto, ON, USA education, photography, family, employment, Japanese language school, travel, internment camp, curfew, small business, Jewish community, sports, travel, work
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 Shigeo Kimura 2025.012 Post War Japanese Japan, Toronto, ON sports, martial arts, immigration, work, gardening, food, family, living conditions, living in Japan, children, marriage
Interview with Ted Toshitsugu Nishi 2010.015 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal Steveston, BC, Vancouver, BC, Japan, Hamilton, ON, Toronto, ON Japanese language school, United Church, self-supporting camps, British Columbia Security Commission, career, work
Interview with Tom Takashima 2010.011 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Internment Vancouver, BC, Kitsilano, BC, Toronto, ON, Hamilton, ON, Ontario, Canada nisei, marriage, career, small business, work, The Great Depression
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 Tosh Uyeda 2010.040 World War II English Redress, World War II Vancouver, BC, Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Japan, Slocan City, BC, Lemon Creek, BC, Popoff, BC, Toronto, ON, New Denver, BC, Kitsilano, BC education, transportation, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Buddhism, Japanese language school, family, Asahi Baseball Team, food, housing, living conditions, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), work, employment, festivals, children, travel, health, sports, language, Chinatown, marriage, gardening, church, dance, teaching, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), Japan town
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 Tsutomu "Stony" Nakano 2010.057 World War II, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s English Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour Alberta, Canada, Britannia Beach, Squamish, BC, Chatham, ON, Fraser Valley, BC, Griffin Lake, BC, Hamilton, ON, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Hope, BC, Lethbridge, AB, London, ON, Maple Ridge, BC, Mission, BC, Montreal, QC, New Denver, BC, Ontario, Canada, Revelstoke, BC, Ruskin, BC, Tashme, BC, Three Valley, BC, Toronto, ON, Vancouver, BC agriculture, Asahi Baseball Team, baseball, bathhouse, beet fields, Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), employment, enemy alien, family, farming, gardening, logging, men-only work camps, Nikkei Voice newspaper, recreation, road camps, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), travel, work
Interview with William (Bill) Tasaburo Hashizume 2010.009 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s English World War II, Atomic Bomb, Attack on Pearl Harbour Osaka, Japan, Japan, Nagasaki, Japan, Mission, BC, Toronto, ON, Fraser Valley, BC farming, work, career, nisei, education
Interview with Winston Hayashi 2022.007 Pre War, World War II, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s English World War II Vancouver, BC, Toronto, ON, Port Hope, ON, Japan Anglicanism, church, discrimination, education, nisei, sansei, religion, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), children, commerce, food, work, issei, canneries, Japanese language school, language, family
Interview with: Harold Yutaka Yoneyama 2010.019 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour Fraser Valley, BC, Haney, BC, Alberta, Canada, Toronto, ON farming, education, Kika (Nikkei educated in Japan), communities, work
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