Interviews

1. Building Japanese style fishing boats in Canada

2. Japanese fishermen town in Steveston, Canada

3. Grandmother convinced his mother to return to Canada

4. No immediate impact after Pearl Harbor

5. Treatment of Japanese fishermen in Canada during World War II

6. Government's permission to publish Japanese newspaper in Canada during World War II

7. Japanese newspaper supported by Canadian government during World War II

8. Sneaking out of the Hastings Park camp during World War II

9. Fire started by illegal sake still at the camp

10. Building a Japanese rock garden inside an internment camp

11. Government urged Japanese Canadians to go to Japan

12. Japanese Canadians get the right to vote in 1949

13. Government sold Japanese Canadian properties for little money

14. Developing senior housing for Japanese Canadians

(b. 1928) Doctor. Former Chair of the Japanese Canadian Redress Foundation.

Developing senior housing for Japanese Canadians

We were trying to develop a sense of community, we were trying to do, we had certain prerequisites. We wanted to have so much money go to seniors, seniors' groups, and they had to have some kind of project that would help them. So that meant seniors, nursing-type homes, that type of thing. And it did, they, Toronto did come up with a good plan. Now you've got a big Momiji Center, which today houses Japanese Canadian older seniors, and they live there as, it's not nursing entirely, but it's a residence that gives them quite a few advantages. Then there was one that we made in Vancouver called Nikkei Place, and they have a seniors' residence there. Those are the two major ones. There's one in (Vernon, B.C.) and there's one in Ontario in a place called Beansville, and these were things that we put into.

Beamsville Canada Momiji Centre Nikkei Place Ontario

Date: July 25 & 26, 2006

Location: Washington, US

Interviewer: Tom Ikeda

Contributed by: Denshō: The Japanese American Legacy Project.

Interviewee Bio

Henry Shimizu was born in Prince Rupert, B.C. in 1928 and was interned in New Denver during the war. After leaving the internment camp, he moved to Edmonton where he still resides. As a medical graduate, Dr. Henry Shimizu specialized in plastic surgery and has been active in the medical community by serving in numerous leadership positions. From 1989 to 2002, he served as chairperson of JCRF. He is an artist and has painted a number of scenes from his internment days. His works were exhibited in several communities. For his outstanding contribution to the community, he has received several awards including the NAJC National Award 1999, the University of Alberta Distinguished Alumni Award 2004 and the Order of Canada 2004. (July 26, 2006)