Timothy Koyama
Timothy Koyama was inspired to help his father, Daniel Yosh Koyam, write after stumbling across an article online about his grandfather and his fish camp in Canada pre-WWII. He has lived in Southern California his entire life and attended UCLA, rival school to his wite's USC and his son's UC Santa Barbara. Besides supporting the Bruins, Trojans, and Gauchos, he enjoys watching Rams, Lakers, Dodgers, and Angel games. Timothy is also an avid golf fa, enjoys finshing in the Sierras, and surf fishing along the Southern California coast.
Updated February 2022
Stories from This Author
Koyama of Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, B.C. Canada - Part 3
Feb. 11, 2022 • Daniel “Yosh” Koyama , Timothy Koyama , Phyllis Parham Reeve
Read Part 2 >> Forced Exile to Japan Kanshiro Koyama was relieved. Now what is ahead for him? Would he be allowed back to the West Coast? South of the border, the Japanese Americans were freed to move about anywhere including the Coast even before the war was over. He waited. Meanwhile through the International Red Cross, he found out his family were safe and had survived the bombings. He waited. But the news that he wanted to hear never …
Koyama of Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, B.C. Canada - Part 2
Feb. 4, 2022 • Daniel “Yosh” Koyama , Timothy Koyama , Phyllis Parham Reeve
Read Part 1 >> Meanwhile in Japan When war came, the first thing the Japanese government did was freeze all assets. Overnight Mom couldn’t get money, our rich lifestyle had to be shut down and the next few years were a life of poverty for Kanshiro Koyama’s family in Japan. Mom closed down the gorgeous two-story house by the moat of Wakayama Castle and we moved to live with her older sister, the wife of a professor who taught at …
Koyama of Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, B.C. Canada - Part 1
Jan. 28, 2022 • Daniel “Yosh” Koyama , Timothy Koyama , Phyllis Parham Reeve
Foreword by Phyllis Parham Reeve We came to Page’s Resort & Marina on Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, in 1987, eager to carry on the spirit of the place as established by the Page brothers, Les and Jack, and their families. As we learned from them the story of the Bay, the docks, the fishermen and the shore people, we heard that before Page's Store, fishing camp and marina, there had been Koyama's Fishing Camp, with docks, a store, and sometimes …
