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Japanese Canadian Internment and Family Experiences - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> While the family was in camp, the Canadian government was doing everything in its power to rid the Japanese Canadians from British ...

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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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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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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 ...

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The Evolution of A Canadian 'Enemy Alien' - The Frank Maikawa Story - Part 5 of 12

Read Part 4 >> Growing Up Nisei In Pre-WW2 Vancouver I remember playing war games with made in Japan toy wooden knives and rifles. In Vancouver ...

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Livestock Building at Hastings Park in Vancouver, B.C.

“Over 3,000 Japanese Canadian women and children, demonstrating resilience under deplorable conditions, were unjustly detained here from March to December 1942. A public facility ...

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Ba-chan’s Story: Thoughts and recollections of a Japanese Canadian growing up in Canada - Part 1

Introduction* Ba-chan’s Story (Grandmother’s Story) all began because Dr. Midge (Michiko Ishii) Ayukawa, Historian; former Board Member of the Japanese Canadian National Museum ...