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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: Impacts of WWII - Interview with Ann Frost
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: In the traumatic time of WWII; rationing, blackouts, and wartime propaganda impacted young lives. We had the rationing, we had food shortages; you couldn't get a new tube of toothpaste unless you turned in an old tube of toothpaste.
Extent: 00:04:02
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Japanese Canadian Internment, Food supply, Blackouts in war
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

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 Internment - 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 her early life in Steveston and being sent to an internment camp in New Denver.
Extent: 00:01:25
Subject(s): Japanese Canadian Internment, World War, 1939-1945, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1940s
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: 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: 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: Uprooted Again, Japanese Internment - 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 experiences of Japanese-Canadians who were interned to camps during the Second World War and the experiences of Japanese-Canadians who had to follow their parents back to Japan when they were forced to leave Canada.
Extent: 00:02:04
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian Internment, Racism, War
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Wartime Memories - Interview with Tom Holmes:
Contributor(s): Holmes, Tom (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Tom describes his memories of wartime and the Japanese internment during World War II.
Extent: 00:02:35
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Japanese Canadian Internment
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City