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 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 Tomi-Taro (Tom) Nishio | 2012.292 | World War II | English | World War II | Vancouver, BC, Alberta, Canada, Nanaimo, BC, Kitsilano, BC, Japan, Nanaimo, BC, Montreal, QC, Ottawa, ON, Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Bridge River, BC, East Lillooet, BC, Alberta, Canada, London, ON, Toronto, ON | commerce, small business, War Measures Act, relocation centres, Kika (Nikkei educated in Japan), nisei, immigration, education, issei, Japanese language school, religion, Christianity, Japan town, community, internment camp, self-supporting camps, military, career, work, sports, sports, food, fishing, living conditions, War Measures Act, self-supporting camps, housing, Prisoner of War (POW), censorship, displacement, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), Momiji, community, volunteer, children, family |
| 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 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 |