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The Lost Highways: BC JC Heritage Sign Project Ends, Ontario’s Begins - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Can you tell us a bit about each of the sign sites? What was the local community support like? It began on ...

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The Lost Highways: BC JC Heritage Sign Project Ends, Ontario’s Begins - Part 1

Certainly one of the most important Japanese Canadian projects that was completed in 2018 was the Highway Legacy Sign Project in British Columbia (BC), Canada ...

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Journey Sparked By A Photograph

TORONTO — Stéphane Hamade, a fifth generation Japanese Canadian, spent seven days in the village of Mio, Wakayama, Japan, learning about the small fishing village ...

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Toronto Nisei "Mush" Arima - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> What do you remember about life in the camps e.g., eating? Toilet? Baths? School? Your mother passed away there. Was she ...

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Toronto Nisei "Mush" Arima - Part 1

As the 75th anniversary of the internment came and went last year, I have promised myself to get more of the stories of the Nisei ...

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First Lady Plumber in Canada Is a Nikkei

Anna (Fujimura) Higashi grew up in Woodfibre, B.C. Her grandfather Isaburo Fujimura and son Taichiro, seventeen years of age, came to Canada in the ...

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Iwasaki Family of Salt Spring Island

Ray Torao Iwasaki was born in Ganges, B.C. in 1933 and he lived an idyllic life on Salt Spring Island in the Gulf Islands ...

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Nisei Story: Unexpected Friendship Lost and Found

Teresa Chizu Kurisu lived a normal Powell Street life as a child. She attended Strathcona Elementary School in East Vancouver and went to Japanese Language ...

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Province of BC Designates 56 Historical JC Sites: Interview with Lorene Oikawa and Sherri Kajiwara - Part 3

Read Part 2 >> Can you please talk a bit about your own family history? Internment and where? How and when did they eventually get back ...

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Canadian Nikkei Series

Province of BC Designates 56 Historical JC Sites: Interview with Lorene Oikawa and Sherri Kajiwara - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> From my distant vantage point of Ontario, it seems that there are several initiatives out there in BC that are aimed at ...