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Tomekichi Homma (Part 2) — Early Activist

Read Part 1 (Tomekichi Homma) >> What did the village of Steveston look like in the 1880s when the…

Ann-Lee Switzer +1 • April 22, 2024

British Columbia Canada generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration naturalized citizen Steveston Tomekichi Homma

Who Was The First Japanese Immigrant to Canada?

Tomekichi Homma (Part 1) — Early Activist

If Nagano did not arrive in 1877, who might have been the first immigrant from Japan to put down …

Ann-Lee Switzer +1 • April 21, 2024

British Columbia Canada elections generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan migration naturalized citizen political science Steveston Tomekichi Homma voting

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Part 35: American Village in Mihama, Wakayama - On the way to Japan's coastline ④

If you head towards the Kii Peninsula along the coastline from Ago Bay in Mie Prefecture, you will …

Ryusuke Kawai • Sept. 8, 2023

Amerikamura (Shima, Mie Prefecture) aquatic sports British Columbia Canada Canada Museum fishing Gihei Kuno Honshu immigrants immigration Japan Mie Prefecture migration Mihama (Wakayama) Mio museums salmon fishing Steveston Wakayama Prefecture

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No. 24 Japanese Canadian Pioneers - From "The Story of Manzo in Canada"

The life of Nagano Manzo, the first Japanese immigrant to Canada, who was introduced in the previou…

Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 24, 2023

aquatic sports Arichika Ikeda British Columbia Canada fishing Ikeda Bay immigrants immigration Jinzaburo Oikawa Junichi Sunohara Kanada Manzo Monogatari: The First Immigrant to Canada (book) Masajiro Miyazaki Mexico migration pioneers Queen Charlotte Islands salmon fishing Shiga Aikawa Steveston Tomekichi Homma Vancouver (B.C.)

Book Review: Norifumi Kawahara, "Historical Geography of Japanese Fisheries Immigrants in Canada"

The Monterey Bay Aquarium, famous for its excellent displays of marine life native to California, i…

Chisa Matsunaga • Sept. 21, 2022

aquaculture book reviews British Columbia Canada canneries fisheries food processing plants generations immigrants immigration Issei Japan Japanese migration Norifumi Kawahara reviews Steveston Vancouver Island

Tastes Like Memories: From Sea and Shore Steveston's Favorite Japanese Canadian Recipes

STEVESTON — Inspiration struck for the community cookbook, From the Sea and Shore: Steveston’s Favo…

Kelly Fleck • March 20, 2022

British Columbia Canada food From the Sea and Shore (book) Japanese Canadians recipes Steveston

Steveston Nikkei Memorial

Sitting at the mouth of the Fraser River, the village of Steveston, although technically part of Ri…

John Endo Greenaway • July 8, 2019

British Columbia Canada Japanese Canadians Richmond (B.C.) Steveston Steveston Nikkei Memorial

Journey Sparked By A Photograph

TORONTO — Stéphane Hamade, a fifth generation Japanese Canadian, spent seven days in the village of…

Kelly Fleck • Jan. 22, 2019

British Columbia Canada Japan Japanese Canadians Mio Steveston Wakayama (city) Wakayama Prefecture

Steveston Community Society and the Nikkei Community

Steveston, at the southern end of the city of Richmond, had long been home to a large and active Ja…

Kelvin Higo • Jan. 19, 2018

British Columbia Canada communities Japanese Canadians kendo martial arts Steveston

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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