Sedai Oral History Collection Catalogue
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| Title | Accession number | Period | Language | Event | Location | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 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 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 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 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 |