Phyllis Parham Reeve

Phyllis Parham Reeve has written about local and personal history in her three solo books and in contributions to journals and multi-author publications. She is a contributing editor of the Dorchester Review and her writing appears frequently online in The Ormsby Review and occasionally in print in Amphora, the journal of the Alcuin Society. Her particular interest focuses on stories involving places where she has lived, for instance Page’s Resort & Marina, formerly Koyama's Fish Camp on Gabriola Island.

Updated January 2022

Stories from This Author

Koyama of Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, B.C. Canada - Part 3

Feb. 11, 2022 • Daniel “Yosh” Koyama , Timothy Koyama , Phyllis Parham Reeve

Read Part 2 >> Forced Exile to Japan Kanshiro Koyama was relieved. Now what is ahead for him? Would he be allowed back to the West Coast? South of the border, the Japanese Americans were freed to move about anywhere including the Coast even before the war was over. He waited. Meanwhile through the International Red Cross, he found out his family were safe and had survived the bombings. He waited. But the news that he wanted to hear never …

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Koyama of Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, B.C. Canada - Part 2

Feb. 4, 2022 • Daniel “Yosh” Koyama , Timothy Koyama , Phyllis Parham Reeve

Read Part 1 >> Meanwhile in Japan When war came, the first thing the Japanese government did was freeze all assets. Overnight Mom couldn’t get money, our rich lifestyle had to be shut down and the next few years were a life of poverty for Kanshiro Koyama’s family in Japan. Mom closed down the gorgeous two-story house by the moat of Wakayama Castle and we moved to live with her older sister, the wife of a professor who taught at …

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Koyama of Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, B.C. Canada - Part 1

Jan. 28, 2022 • Daniel “Yosh” Koyama , Timothy Koyama , Phyllis Parham Reeve

Foreword by Phyllis Parham Reeve We came to Page’s Resort & Marina on Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, in 1987, eager to carry on the spirit of the place as established by the Page brothers, Les and Jack, and their families. As we learned from them the story of the Bay, the docks, the fishermen and the shore people, we heard that before Page's Store, fishing camp and marina, there had been Koyama's Fishing Camp, with docks, a store, and sometimes …