Interview with Fumiko Kanbara (nee Shimoda)

Fumiko Shimoda Kanbara's interview was conducted on October 30, 2011 by Lisa Uyeda.

Fumiko Kanbara (née Shimoda) was born in 1917 in North Arm, British Columbia. The interview is about Fumiko Kanbara and her family’s life in Port Moody, Vancouver (prior to World War II), Hastings Park, Slocan, and New Denver, BC; and Angler and Hamilton, ON. She was raised in a large family in Port Moody before moving to Vancouver where she ran a store that her family eventually bought. Her fiancé and eldest brother were involved in organizing against family separation during internment, which led to them being kept in detention in Angler, ON, for four and a half years. The rest of her family was able to remain together in internment in Slocan and moved to the New Denver internment camp to avoid deportation. After the war, she and her family moved to Hamilton, ON, where she was reunited with her husband and three brothers.