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Interview with Mary Matsui 2010.059 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 2000s, 2010s English Japan, Alberta, Canada, Kitsilano, BC, Vancouver, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Toronto, ON Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), work, immigration, small business, Japanese language school, education, discrimination, curfew, relocation centres, Momiji, social activity, social life, education, career, religion, food, teaching, communities, issei, nisei
Interview with Mary Setsuko Katsuno (nee Ishii) 2011.153 Pre War, Post War English Redress, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Japan, Vancouver, BC, Victoria, BC, Popoff, BC, Montreal, QC, Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, USA, Toronto, ON, Slocan City, BC, New Denver, BC family, children, immigration, newspaper, United Church, transportation, odori, church, Buddhism, employment, food, marriage, language, discrimination, education, The Great Depression, religion, farming, Christianity, odori, language, education, The Great Depression, Asahi Baseball Team, teaching, volunteer, health, military, food, sports, bathhouse, radio, music, photography, transportation, housing, church, sports, language, travel, clothing
Interview with Masako Okawara (nee Isoshima) 2011.196 Pre War, Post War English Redress, Attack on Pearl Harbour Haney, BC, Toronto, ON, New Denver, BC, USA, Japan teaching, immigration, United Church, Buddhism, family, travel, language, bathhouse, Ikebana, religion, immigration, education, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), volunteer, clothing, travel, music, odori, housing, food, marriage, health, children, travel, transportation, farming, employment, boat works
Interview with Masashi "Mas" Shin 2011.019 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour Whonnock, BC, Japan, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Revelstoke, BC, Chatham, ON, Toronto, ON, Mission, BC, Tashme, BC education, sports, family, employment, The Great Depression, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), volunteer, discrimination, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), housing, language, travel, farming, food, odori, music, bathhouse, sports, religion, Buddhism, United Church, logging, Kika (Nikkei educated in Japan)
Interview with Mickey Matsubayashi 2010.030 Pre War, Post War, World War II English World War II, Relocation, Internment Vancouver, BC, Toronto, ON, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Bay Farm, BC, Montreal, QC, Guelph, ON, Slocan City, BC, Popoff, BC, Powell Street, Vancouver, BC family, nisei, Buddhism, health, education, employment, career, marriage, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), children, travel, Japanese language school, men-only work camps, living conditions, food, radio, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), sports
Interview with Minoru "Min" Yatabe 2010.017 Pre War, World War II, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s English Redress, World War II, Relocation, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Kitsilano, BC, London, ON, Ontario, Canada, Toronto, ON, Vancouver, BC career, military, family, work, employment, education
Interview with Mitsu Ito 2010.008 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Deportation, Internment Japan, Mission, BC, Haney, BC, Alberta, Canada, Hiroshima, Japan, Toronto, ON farming, work, Buddhism, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC)
Interview with Miyoko "Miyo" Nakamura (nee Fujita) 2011.021 Pre War, Post War, World War II English Redress, World War II, Attack on Pearl Harbour New Westminster, BC, Ruskin, BC, Tashme, BC, Kingston, ON, Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Whonnock, BC, Hope, BC, Toronto, ON family, farming, curfew, education, housing, employment, food, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), marriage, Buddhism, radio, photography, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), religion, language, United Church, immigration, travel, discrimination
Interview with Molly (Iwasaki) Aihoshi 2012.212 World War II English World War II Vancouver, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, New Denver, BC, Toronto, ON, Ottawa, ON education, food, family, immigration, discrimination, sports, Buddhism, Japanese language school, social life, work, language, displacement, British Columbia Security Commission, living conditions, United Church, marriage, social life, newspaper
Interview with Nana Nishimura (December 8, 2011) 2011.342 Pre War, Post War, World War II English Redress, World War II Toronto, ON, New Westminster, BC, Japan, Vancouver, BC, Vancouver Island, BC, Winnipeg, MB Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), Japanese language school, food, travel, family, education, marriage, employment, funeral, immigration, Jewish community, religion, housing, bathhouse, discrimination, career, farming, recreation, clothing, sports, Momiji, transportation, dance, Christianity, Shinto, children, festivals, community, church
Interview with Peter Wakayama 2010.020 Pre War, Post War, World War II English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Internment Hastings Park, Vancouver, Kelowna, BC, Chatham, ON, Toronto, ON, New Denver, BC, Fraser Valley, BC, Japan work, education, career
Interview with Rose Kutsukake (nee Taipei) 2010.003 Pre War, Post War, World War II English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Internment Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Vancouver, BC, Slocan City, BC, Toronto, ON marriage, Asahi Baseball Team, work, housing
Interview with Ross Hiroshi Shin 2010.046 Pre War, Post War, World War II English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Deportation, Internment Tashme, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Toronto, ON, Guelph, ON, Vancouver, BC, Japan agriculture, farming, employment, education, social activity, martial arts, living conditions, family, bathhouse, logging, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), fishing, baseball, music, religion, Buddhism, clothing, Japanese language school, community, dance, marriage, music, travel, nisei
Interview with Roy Akira Nagamatsu 2010.074 World War II, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s English Redress, World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Hamilton, ON, New Denver, BC, Montreal, QC, Toronto, ON agriculture, detention camps, displacement, family, funeral, food, ghost towns, issei, Japan, logging, marriage, military, nisei, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), social life, sports, travel, work, Jewish community, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), religion, fishing, road camps, health, deportation, British Columbia Security Commission, employment, newspaper, Nikkei Voice newspaper, sansei, yonsei
Interview with Roy Matsui 2010.047 Pre War, Post War, World War II English Redress, World War II, Relocation, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment USA, Vancouver, BC, Japan, Marpole, BC, Sandon, BC, Montreal, QC, New Denver, BC, Ottawa, ON, Etobicoke, ON, Lemon Creek, BC, Angler, ON, Toronto, ON immigration, marriage, employment, family, travel, education, mining, relocation centres, ghost towns, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), nisei, community, Prisoner of War (POW), career, housing, internment camps, police, photography, discrimination, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), military, British Columbia Security Commission, curfew, mining, language, social activity, living conditions, music, boat works, language, sports, Asahi Baseball Team, radio, health, food, Momiji, transportation, language, religion, Buddhism, Anglicanism
Interview with Rubiko "Ruby" Fukumoto (nee Morita) (February 18, 2009) 2010.013 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1920s, 1940s English Japan, Calgary, AB, Victoria, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Bay Farm, BC, Chatham, ON, New Denver, BC, Toronto, ON issei, Japanese language school, road camps, recreation, social activity, dance, sports, relocation centres, internment camp, work, employment, community, family, travel, volunteer
Interview with Rubiko "Ruby" Fukumoto (nee Morita) (July 13, 2011) 2011.350 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s English Redress, World War II, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Alberta, Canada, Calgary, AB, Japan, Victoria, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Slocan City, BC, Bay Farm, BC, Revelstoke, BC, Chatham, ON, Ontario, Canada, Toronto, ON immigration, Japan, family, work, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), Jewish community, career, dance, farming, discrimination, small business, church, community, education, employment, language, marriage, housing, social activity, road camps, bathhouse, Japanese language school
Interview with Sachiko Takahashi (nee Kodama) 2010.034 World War II English World War II, Internment Japan, Vancouver, BC, Marpole, BC, New Denver, BC, Slocan City, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Nelson, BC, Lemon Creek, BC, Toronto, ON, Guelph, ON, Etobicoke, ON, USA church, family, education, fishing, children, discrimination, internment camps, living conditions, Japanese language school, teaching, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), health, police, festivals, clothing, travel, transportation, music, discrimination, logging, children, travel, language, dance, marriage, photography, employment, gardening, Shinto
Interview with Sam Yamada 2010.001 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s English World War II, Forced Removal, Internment Vancouver, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Toronto, ON, USA education, photography, family, employment, Japanese language school, travel, internment camp, curfew, small business, Jewish community, sports, travel, work
Interview with Setsuko Thurlow 2010-073 Post War, World War II English World War II, Atomic Bomb Hiroshima, Japan, Nagasaki, Japan, Toronto, ON, Port Hope, ON living in Japan, family, buildings, housing, gardening, military, propaganda, food, work, children, education, social life, volunteer, travel, teaching
Interview with Shigeo "William" Seko 2010.037 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1900s, 1910s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s English Redress, World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Internment Vancouver, BC, Hiroshima, Japan, Japan, Haney, BC, Maple Ridge, BC, Angler, ON, Petawawa, ON, Lemon Creek, BC, Oakville, ON, Toronto, ON, Angler, ON, Japan, Lemon Creek, BC, Maple Ridge, BC, Oakville, ON, Vancouver, BC family, boat works, farming, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), volunteer, children, employment, logging, education, language, food, internment camps, road camps, bathhouse, military, censorship, sports, health, deportation, travel, housing, religion, transportation
Interview with Shigeo Kimura 2025.012 Post War Japanese Japan, Toronto, ON sports, martial arts, immigration, work, gardening, food, family, living conditions, living in Japan, children, marriage
Interview with Shizuko "Sue" Kadoguchi 2010.007 English Redress, World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Internment New Westminster, BC, Woodfibre, BC, Tashme, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Toronto, ON United Church, Ikebana, volunteer, children, family, marriage, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC)
Interview with Shizuye Matsui (nee Kosaka) 2011.048 Pre War, Post War English Redress, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Japan, Vancouver, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Kitsilano, BC, Winnipeg, MB, Lemon Creek, BC, Slocan City, BC, Montreal, QC, Toronto, ON, Kingston, ON, Kaslo, BC immigration, education, language, marriage, employment, United Church, gardening, ghost towns, family, road camps, food, children, housing, discrimination, music, religion, Buddhism, travel
Interview with Shoji Takahashi 2010.033 World War II English Redress, World War II, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Vancouver, BC, Japan, Bridge River, BC, Angler, ON, Toronto, ON, Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Winnipeg, MB, Montreal, QC, Manitoba, Canada, Ukraine, New Denver, BC, Kelowna, BC, Slocan City, BC immigration, transportation, discrimination, education, family, road camps, self-supporting camps, Prisoner of War (POW), family, ghost towns, health, food, children, Japan town, Japanese language school, Buddhism, festivals, children, internment camps, police, photography, Asahi Baseball Team, logging, travel, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), volunteer, language, dance, religion, church, farming, agriculture
Interview with Stan and Aileen Yokota 2012.241 Post War English Internment Japan, Victoria, BC, Ocean Falls, BC, Vancouver, BC, Toronto, ON, Kelowna, BC, Okanagan, BC family, gardening, work, recreation, community, career, Christianity, religion, church, discrimination, Ikebana, photography, career, sports, Momiji, children, Nikkei Voice newspaper, housing, farming, discrimination, work, sansei, food, clothing, United Church, transportation, language, Buddhism, festivals, social activity, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), volunteer, work, curfew, Jewish community, health
Interview with Stan Hiraki 2011.236 Pre War, Post War, World War II English Internment Toronto, ON, Vancouver, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, East Lillooet, BC, London, ON discrimination, language, Jewish community, family, immigration, employment, Asahi Baseball Team, health, volunteer, transportation, sports, newspaper, The Great Depression, food, British Columbia Security Commission, housing, marriage
Interview with Sue Kai (nee Matsugu) 2010.021 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Vancouver, BC, Kaslo, BC, Chatham, ON, Toronto, ON Asahi Baseball Team, family, food, housing, newspaper, dance, nisei, internment camp, church, volunteer, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), community
Interview with Susan Hidaka 2011.038 Pre War, Post War English Redress Okanagan, BC, Japan, Calgary, AB, Toronto, ON, USA housing, family, music, education, farming, food, language, Momiji, volunteer, clothing, discrimination, religion, sports, fishing, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), National Association of Japanese Canadian (NAJC), employment, travel
Interview with Tak and Pollie Nishino (nee Onishi) 2011.010 Pre War, Post War, World War II English Redress, Attack on Pearl Harbour, Internment Victoria, BC, Japan, Sandon, BC, Bay Farm, BC, Toronto, ON, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Lemon Creek, BC, Angler, ON, Hamilton, ON, Petawawa, ON, Schreiber, ON family, Asahi Baseball Team, travel, radio, music, road camps, military, ghost towns, clothing, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), odori, health, children, censorship, housing, bathhouse, sports, employment, marriage, religion, Buddhism, volunteer, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), language, education, British Columbia Security Commission, food, Prisoner of War (POW)
Interview with Takehiko "Tak" Yoshida 2013.141 Post War, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s English, Japanese Japan, Toronto, ON immigration, career, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), family
Interview with Taketo Murata 2013.128 Post War English Vancouver, BC, Montreal, QC, Toronto, ON farming, family, work, small business, issei, nisei, Kika (Nikkei educated in Japan), education, transportation, community, language, recreation, religion, food, education, employment, relocation centres, travel, marriage, children
Interview with Ted Toshitsugu Nishi 2010.015 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal Steveston, BC, Vancouver, BC, Japan, Hamilton, ON, Toronto, ON Japanese language school, United Church, self-supporting camps, British Columbia Security Commission, career, work
Interview with Thomas Matsui 2011.047 Pre War, Post War English Relocation, Forced Removal Japan, Vancouver, BC, Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, East Lillooet, BC, Toronto, ON, Kingston, ON family, employment, marriage, education, housing, The Great Depression, discrimination, farming, military, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), sports, housing, religion, United Church, Jewish community, sports, religion, language, children, photography, logging
Interview with Tin Teruji Goto 2011.322 Pre War English Japan, Burnaby, BC, Vancouver, BC, Calgary, AB, Lethbridge, AB, Slocan City, BC, Prince Rupert, BC, New Denver, BC, Lemon Creek, BC, Popoff, BC, Bay Farm, BC, New Westminster, BC, London, ON, Chatham, ON, Hamilton, ON, Toronto, ON, Bridge River, BC, Osaka, Japan family, Japan, farming, fishing, housing, living conditions, community, internment camp, British Columbia Security Commission, bathhouse, Anglicanism, education, nuns/sisters, church, recreation, communities, sports, Japanese language school, road camps, canneries, social life, food, radio, agriculture, children, displacement, logging, teaching, discrimination, Buddhism, language, dance, odori, baseball, Japan town, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC)
Interview with Tom Takashima 2010.011 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Internment Vancouver, BC, Kitsilano, BC, Toronto, ON, Hamilton, ON, Ontario, Canada nisei, marriage, career, small business, work, The Great Depression
Interview with Tom Takashima - Nipponia Home 2012.123 Post War English World War II Toronto, ON, Vancouver, BC, New Westminster, BC, Victoria, BC social life, issei, nisei, education, discrimination, Christianity, United Church, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), displacement, work, farming, education, immigration, marriage, The Great Depression, fishing
Interview with Tomi-Taro (Tom) Nishio 2012.292 World War II English World War II Vancouver, BC, Alberta, Canada, Nanaimo, BC, Kitsilano, BC, Japan, Nanaimo, BC, Montreal, QC, Ottawa, ON, Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Bridge River, BC, East Lillooet, BC, Alberta, Canada, London, ON, Toronto, ON commerce, small business, War Measures Act, relocation centres, Kika (Nikkei educated in Japan), nisei, immigration, education, issei, Japanese language school, religion, Christianity, Japan town, community, internment camp, self-supporting camps, military, career, work, sports, sports, food, fishing, living conditions, War Measures Act, self-supporting camps, housing, Prisoner of War (POW), censorship, displacement, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), Momiji, community, volunteer, children, family
Interview with Tosh Uyeda 2010.040 World War II English Redress, World War II Vancouver, BC, Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Japan, Slocan City, BC, Lemon Creek, BC, Popoff, BC, Toronto, ON, New Denver, BC, Kitsilano, BC education, transportation, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Buddhism, Japanese language school, family, Asahi Baseball Team, food, housing, living conditions, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), work, employment, festivals, children, travel, health, sports, language, Chinatown, marriage, gardening, church, dance, teaching, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), Japan town
Interview with Toshiko Usami 2011.267 Pre War English World War II Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, Vancouver, BC, Sandon, BC, Lemon Creek, BC, Japan, Toronto, ON Japan, religion, family, relocation centres, housing, education, Japanese language school, small business, commerce, food, social life, religion, community, education, road camps, curfew, clothing, festivals, living conditions, work, travel, health, employment, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC)
Interview with Tsutomu "Stony" Nakano 2010.057 World War II, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s English Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour Alberta, Canada, Britannia Beach, Squamish, BC, Chatham, ON, Fraser Valley, BC, Griffin Lake, BC, Hamilton, ON, Hastings Park, Vancouver, Hope, BC, Lethbridge, AB, London, ON, Maple Ridge, BC, Mission, BC, Montreal, QC, New Denver, BC, Ontario, Canada, Revelstoke, BC, Ruskin, BC, Tashme, BC, Three Valley, BC, Toronto, ON, Vancouver, BC agriculture, Asahi Baseball Team, baseball, bathhouse, beet fields, Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), employment, enemy alien, family, farming, gardening, logging, men-only work camps, Nikkei Voice newspaper, recreation, road camps, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), travel, work
Interview with Umeko Kuba 2011.224 Pre War, Post War, World War II English World War II, Attack on Pearl Harbour Steveston, BC, Japan, Kaslo, BC, Toronto, ON, Winnipeg, MB health, employment, education, food, family, boat works, detention camps, discrimination, language, marriage, religion, fishing, volunteer, Kika (Nikkei educated in Japan)
Interview with William (Bill) Tasaburo Hashizume 2010.009 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s English World War II, Atomic Bomb, Attack on Pearl Harbour Osaka, Japan, Japan, Nagasaki, Japan, Mission, BC, Toronto, ON, Fraser Valley, BC farming, work, career, nisei, education
Interview with Winston Hayashi 2022.007 Pre War, World War II, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s English World War II Vancouver, BC, Toronto, ON, Port Hope, ON, Japan Anglicanism, church, discrimination, education, nisei, sansei, religion, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), children, commerce, food, work, issei, canneries, Japanese language school, language, family
Interview with Yaeko Fujimoto 2010.012 Pre War, Post War English, Japanese Osaka, Japan, Toronto, ON social life, dance, marriage, farming, agriculture, teaching
Interview with Yukio Ode 2010.048 Pre War, World War II English World War II Japan, Griffin Lake, BC, Popoff, BC, Slocan City, BC, Yard Creek, BC, New Denver, BC, Toronto, ON, Japan, Kelowna, BC, Powell Street, Vancouver, BC family, farming, travel, nisei, education, Japanese language school, road camps, issei, agriculture, employment, living conditions, military, Asahi Baseball Team, social activity, church, health, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), sports, community
Interview with: Harold Yutaka Yoneyama 2010.019 Pre War, Post War, World War II, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s English World War II, Relocation, Forced Removal, Attack on Pearl Harbour Fraser Valley, BC, Haney, BC, Alberta, Canada, Toronto, ON farming, education, Kika (Nikkei educated in Japan), communities, work
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