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Chris Takashi Robertson Collection - Interview with Florence Senda 2025-017-01 Pre War, Post War, 1920s, 1940s English Alberta, Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Mission, BC picture bride, beet fields, internment camp, farming
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 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 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 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 Harold Takayesu 2010.058 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1970s, 1980s English Redress, World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour Vancouver, BC, Slocan City, BC, Hamilton, ON, Schreiber, ON, Bay Farm, BC education, military, British Columbia Security Commission, internment camp, education, family, employment, National Association of Japanese Canadian (NAJC), War Measures Act, Prisoner of War (POW), road camps, issei, nisei, housing, discrimination, community, bathhouse, propaganda
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 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 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 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 Sachiko Okuda 2026.007 1980s English Redress Montreal, QC community, discrimination, internment camp, family, career, volunteer, sansei, nisei, issei, photography, social activity, children
Interview with Sam Sadaki Baba 2011.346 World War II English Internment New Westminster, BC, Kaslo, BC, New Denver, BC, Tashme, BC, Neys, ON, Nelson, BC, Slocan City, BC, Sandon, BC family, ghost towns, issei, discrimination, education, police, sports, fishing, Buddhism, Japanese language school, marriage, language, food, relocation centres, internment camp, Jewish community, career, employment
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 Sue Kai (nee Matsugu) 2010.021 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Vancouver, BC, Kaslo, BC, Chatham, ON, Toronto, ON Asahi Baseball Team, family, food, housing, newspaper, dance, nisei, internment camp, church, volunteer, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), community
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)
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