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Title: Blending History with Issues of Today - Interview with Judy Hanazawa
Contributor(s): Hanazawa, Judy (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Judy recounts her experiences as a third generation Japanese Canadian and also of her community work with the Squamish Nation.
Extent: 00:04:48
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Reparations for historical injustices, Racism, Squamish people, Social work, Human rights, Social justice, Indigenous peoples
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Childhood Freedom - Interview with Akira Horii:
Contributor(s): Horii, Akira (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Akira talks about the freedom children had in Vancouver back in the 1940s to explore unsupervised, places like Stanley Park and Hastings Park (Pacific National Exhibition grounds).
Extent: 00:00:24
Subject(s): Childhood, Japanese Canadians, Neighbourhoods - Safety, Pacific National Exhibition (Vancouver, B.C.), Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Childhood Memories in Japantown - Interview with Mary Kawamoto:
Contributor(s): Kawamoto, Mary (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Mary recalls her earliest memories in Japantown as well as weekend trips to Kitsilano and Stanley Park.
Extent: 00:02:04
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Comparing Japan and Vancouver - Interview with Mariko Takashina:
Contributor(s): Takashina, Mariko (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Mariko compares her life in Japan with the 'human style' of Vancouver.
Extent: 00:01:46
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Cultural differences
Location(s): Mount Pleasant
Time Period: 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Culture and Language Loss Due to Internment - Interview with Judy Hanazawa
Contributor(s): Hanazawa, Judy (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Judy talks about the impact of the Japanese internment during the Second World War, two of the most impactful being the loss of language and culture.
Extent: 00:01:07
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Racism, World War, 1939-1945, Japanese Canadian Internment
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Doing Something Tangible to Address Past Wrongs - Interview with Grace Eiko Thomson
Contributor(s): Thomson, Grace Eiko (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Grace talks about how society can address past wrongs through education.
Extent: 00:01:49
Subject(s): Reparations for historical injustices, Japanese Canadians, World War, 1939-1945, Japanese Canadian Internment, Education
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: From the East Midlands to Iona Island - Interview with Terry Slack:
Contributor(s): Slack, Terry (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: Terry Slack emigrated from Great Britain in 1948 with his family, some of the earliest settlers on Iona Island. It was certainly a period of adjustment.
Extent: 00:06:10
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Fishing boats, Boatbuilding, Japanese Canadians
Location(s): Dunbar-Southlands
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Jane Austen Society - Interview with Keiko Parker
Contributor(s): Parker, Keiko (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Keiko Parker talks about the Jane Austen Society of North America and the activities of its chapter in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:01:43
Subject(s): Jane Austen Society of North America, Japanese Canadians, Creative writing, History - Societies, etc.
Location(s): Dunbar-Southlands
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Japanese Canadian Internment and Returning to Vancouver - Interview with Lurana Kikuko Tasaka
Contributor(s): Tasaka, Lurana Kikuko (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Lurana Tasaka explains leaving Vancouver to live in Greenwood during the internment of Japanese Canadians and then returning when she was 17. She goes on to tell us some of her favourite activities as a teen.
Extent: 00:02:17
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian Internment, King Edward High School, High schools, Schools, Racism, Catholic Church, Dance, Teenagers, Schools
Location(s): Fairview
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Japanese Canadian Neighbours and the Celtic Cannery - Interview with Terry Slack:
Contributor(s): Slack, Terry (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: Japanese immigrants made up an large part of the Southlands community from the late 19th to the mid 20th Century, attracted by the opportunity to work at the Celtic Cannery. Terry Slack, long time Dunbar-Southlands resident, relates a story he heard from members of the McCleery family (original white settlers in the Dunbar Southlands area) that sheds light on why the Celtic Cannery (pronounced with a soft "C") may have changed its name from Keltic Cannery. Note: the story of the Cannery is unverified.
Extent: 00:02:41
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Japanese Canadians, Celtic Cannery
Location(s): Dunbar-Southlands
Time Period: 1890s, 1910s, 1920s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Japanese Canadians Returning to Vancouver - Interview with Dorothy Matsune
Contributor(s): Matsune, Dorothy (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Dorothy Matsune tells us about returning to Vancouver after her family was forced to return to Japan after World War II. Many Japanese Canadians chose to return to Japan when forced out of their homes in Canada by the internment and relocation of Japanese Canadians.
Extent: 00:03:02
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian Internment, Racism
Location(s): Mount Pleasant
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Japantown Was a Thriving Community - Interview with Grace Eiko Thomson
Contributor(s): Thomson, Grace Eiko (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Grace describes what Japantown was like before the Second World War and some of the issues facing this neighbourhood today.
Extent: 00:01:27
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Powell Street Festival, Gentrification, Volunteers
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Kids After School - Interview with Yuki:
Contributor(s): Yuki (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Yuki compares her own experiences in Japan after school with those of her children today growing up in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:01:52
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, Children, Parenting, Family
Location(s): Renfrew-Collingwood
Time Period: 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Men in a snowbank
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1907
Description: Group of seven men sitting in a snowbank in Britannia Beach.
Subject(s): Men, Winter, Portraits, Group, Japanese Canadians
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: New Blood - Interview with Charles H. Tasaka:
Contributor(s): Tasaka, Charles H. (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Charles Tasaka speaks about the arrival of new Japanese immigrants to Vancouver and the influence these new ideas have on culture and food.
Extent: 00:01:11
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadians - Nisei, Cookery, Japanese, Immigrant - Experience, Powell Street Festival, Food
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Pearl Harbor Changed Everything - Interview with Akira Horii
Contributor(s): Horii, Akira (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Akira talks about how everything changed for Japanese-Canadians after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Extent: 00:04:14
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian Internment, Racism, Schools, Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Elementary schools, Schools, World War, 1939-1945, University of British Columbia. Faculty of Medicine
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: Powell Street Festival - Interview with Eleanor Kaneda:
Contributor(s): Kaneda, Eleanor (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Eleanor talks about why she is involved with the Powell Street festival.
Extent: 00:00:41
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Powell Street Festival, Festivals
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Powell Street Public Bath - Interview with Akira Horii:
Contributor(s): Horii, Akira (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Akira recalls using a public bath on Powell Street, part of the Japantown Business District.
Extent: 00:00:30
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Bathhouses, Central business districts
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Restoring Citizenship - Interview with Sue Miyamoto:
Contributor(s): Miyamoto, Sue (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-03
Language: English
Description: Sue talks about restoring her Canadian citizenship after the end of World War II.
Extent: 00:02:46
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian Internment, Citizenship
Location(s): Marpole
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Sakura So and Powell St. Festival - Interview with Masao Kano:
Contributor(s): Kano, Masuo (Interviewee), Iwaasa, David ()
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Masao Kano discusses his memory of a past Powell Street Festival and living in the Downtown Eastside.
Extent: 00:01:11
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Sakura So (Residence), Powell Street Festival, Cookery, Japanese, Food
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Story City