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“I asked one young Japanese Canadian university student why he got involved and he said there were two small paragraphs he read in school, and …
When the saints go marching in, oh when the saints go marching in…. oh when the Nisei-nts go marching in…… There was Christian influence in …
What was to be a simple, casual get-together to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Japanese Canadian Internment, a Nikkei “Woodstock-like Love-in” occurred at St. …
Did you know that there was a very small settlement of Japanese Canadians at the McLean Mill in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in the …
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In July 1942, the Tashme Internment Camp, the largest in Canada, opened its doors to Japanese Canadians who had been ordered removed from the coast …
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When I was nineteen years old, I moved to Japan for a year to work with no life experience outside of Canada. Japan was a …
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My mother, Ruth Abe (nee Toyota) was a young girl when her family was uprooted and sent to Popoff and New Denver during WWII. She …
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Greenwood was the first “internment centre” and Tashme was the last. In-between, there were Lemon Creek, Popoff, Bay Farm, New Denver, Rosebery, Sandon, and Kaslo. …
Read Part 1 >> The following is the story of Bill Nakashoji’s family’s experience, as he remembers it, and from what he was told by …
This story began as one of a series of narratives, for my children, about my life in the prospecting business. I wrote the tale some …
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