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Part 3: Life before the war and upheaval to Lemon Creek

Read Part 2 >> The only pleasure Frank used to have during these hard times was going fishing down…

Katsuyo “Kay” Mende • Jan. 24, 2021

British Columbia Canada communities Hastings Park temporary detention center Japanese Canadians Lemon Creek Powell Street (Vancouver, B.C.) prewar streets temporary detention centers Vancouver (B.C.) World War II World War II camps

From Vancouver's Powell St. to Toronto: Kay Mende’s Remarkable Life

Part 2: A Japanese Canadian Nisei Education

Read Part 1 >> The following are my siblings: Shigeru (Frank): b. 1924. He worked for the Dep…

Katsuyo “Kay” Mende • Jan. 17, 2021

British Columbia Canada communities Japanese Canadians Powell Street (Vancouver, B.C.) prewar streets Vancouver (B.C.)

From Vancouver's Powell St. to Toronto: Kay Mende’s Remarkable Life

Part 1: Family History & Life on Powell St.

“Our Mother’s account of her childhood and adolescence in Vancouver, British Columbia paints a vi…

Katsuyo “Kay” Mende • Jan. 10, 2021

British Columbia Canada communities Japanese Canadians Powell Street (Vancouver, B.C.) prewar streets Vancouver (B.C.)

Power of Our Stories

Vancouver’s 1907 Anti-Asian Riots Revisited - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> For those who may not be familiar with it, can you give a summary of the events lea…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Dec. 31, 2019

360 Riot Walk (virtual tour) British Columbia Canada communities exclusion Henry Tsang Japanese Canadians Powell Street (Vancouver, B.C.) racism riots streets Vancouver (B.C.)

Power of Our Stories

Vancouver’s 1907 Anti-Asian Riots Revisited - Part 1

“Nothing could be more systematic than the determination with which the mob picked out Japanese a…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Dec. 30, 2019

360 Riot Walk (virtual tour) British Columbia Canada communities exclusion Henry Tsang Japanese Canadians Powell Street (Vancouver, B.C.) racism riots streets tours Vancouver (B.C.)

First Lady Plumber in Canada Is a Nikkei

Anna (Fujimura) Higashi grew up in Woodfibre, B.C. Her grandfather Isaburo Fujimura and son Taich…

Chuck Tasaka • Nov. 23, 2017

British Columbia Canada Greenwood (B.C.) Japanese Canadians plumbers Powell Street (Vancouver, B.C.) streets Vancouver (B.C.) Woodfibre

1942 Vancouver Revisited in Nishihata’s Powell Street Diary

Nisei Jesse Nishihata (1929-2006) was working on a TV series idea in the 1980s about the Japanese…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Oct. 27, 2017

British Columbia Canada Japantowns Jesse Nishihata Powell Street Diary (book) Powell Street (Vancouver, B.C.) prewar streets Vancouver (B.C.)

Canadian Nikkei Series

"To Jesse, with Love": Son Publishes Powell Street Diary

And underneath this sheltering bowlWe call the sky,Do not lift up your finger;For It moves as imp…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Aug. 1, 2017

British Columbia Canada Japantowns Jesse Nishihata Powell Street Diary (book) Powell Street (Vancouver, B.C.) prewar streets Vancouver (B.C.)

Nisei Story: Unexpected Friendship Lost and Found

Teresa Chizu Kurisu lived a normal Powell Street life as a child. She attended Strathcona Elementar…

Chuck Tasaka • July 21, 2017

British Columbia Canada friendship Greenwood (B.C.) interpersonal relations Japanese Canadians Powell Street (Vancouver, B.C.) streets Vancouver (B.C.) World War II

Nisei: When The Nisei-nts Go Marching In ...

When the saints go marching in, oh when the saints go marching in…. oh when the Nisei-nts go marchi…

Chuck Tasaka • May 26, 2017

British Columbia Canada Catholicism Christianity Goro Kaburagi Greenwood (B.C.) missionaries Powell Street (Vancouver, B.C.) religion Sacred Heart Church schools Steveston streets Vancouver (B.C.) Victoria (B.C.)

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