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From Vancouver's Powell St. to Toronto: Kay Mende’s Remarkable Life

Part 3: Life before the war and upheaval to Lemon Creek

Read Part 2 >> The only pleasure Frank used to have during these hard times was going fishing down Gore Avenue to make a few pennies ...

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Part 4: A secret history — Life after internment

Read Part 3 >> During the Second World War, George Doi and his parents and siblings were imprisoned in an internment camp at Bay Farm in ...

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Part 3: Train ride into the unknown — a child’s life in the Slocan internment camp

Read Part 2 >> During the Second World War, George Doi and his parents and siblings were imprisoned in an internment camp at Bay Farm in ...

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Part 2: Hastings Park Detention Centre

Read Part 1 >> During the Second World War, George Doi and his parents and siblings were imprisoned in an internment camp at Bay Farm in ...

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Japanese Canadian Internment and Family Experiences - Part 1

The Japanese Canadians were among the first non-native settlers of Salt Spring Island. The 1901 census shows 59 islanders of Japanese origin. In 1941, there ...

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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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Nikkei Chronicles #4 — Nikkei Family: Memories, Traditions, and Values

George Nakamura turns 88

My dad turned 88 this year, so we had a big party for him. Turning 88 is perhaps not so rare as it once was ...

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Canadian Nikkei Series

The Indomitable Spirit of Keiko Mary Kitagawa - Part 2

Read Part 1 >>When I was 48 years old, I went back to the University of British Columbia (UBC) to study the Japanese language and ...

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Canadian Nikkei Series

The Indomitable Spirit of Keiko Mary Kitagawa - Part 1

       “...It matters not how strait the gate,       How charged with punishments the scroll,       I am the master of my fate,       I am the captain of ...