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During World war II, George Doi and his parents and siblings were imprisoned in an internment camp at Bay Farm in Slocan. After they were …
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Kenichi Doi was a pitcher for the Vancouver Asahi baseball team in 1926 who originally played with the Cumberland baseball team on Vancouver Island B.C. …
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Read Part 1 >> Tenning-san The man called “Tenning-san” refers to Jujiro Takenouchi (1869–1937), who grew up in Kuwana, Mie, graduated from Navy Comptroller School …
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Former Nelson Star editor, Greg Nesteroff, on January 21, 2015, wrote an article on names of Japanese Canadians scratched on the wall of the old …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
There’s only one obvious sign today that Slocan, British Columbia was an internment camp for Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. At the back …
Aya Higashi, the last remaining Kaslo, British Columbia, resident interned there during the Second World War, died last year at 96. Higashi enjoyed a long …
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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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