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Rediscovering the Sugar Beet Fields 77 Years Later
During the week of October 7, 2019, a shiny white highway bus containing some 43 Japanese Canadians once again travelled the roads and streets between Lethbridge, Raymond, Picture Butte and Taber, some 77 years after approximately 2,250 exhausted and traumatized Japanese Canadians arrived in dusty, dilapidated railway cars as part of the federal government’s forced removal of Japanese Canadians from the Pacific Coast in 1942. This first sugar beet bus tour was a collaboration, with me providing some of the narrative and the Nikkei National Museum in Burnaby providing logistical and hist…
