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SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "Japanese ;Internment: 1942" by Tom Cone, depicts the Japanese internment camps during World War II.;

CALL NUMBER: T2004:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Public health nurse; response to change PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1955 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Hunter sketches her education and decision to enter VGH nursing school in 1936 with a description of the courses, emphasis and class size when she graduated in 1939; in 1940 she was on the staff of the Metropolitan Health Committee of Greater Vancouver and in 1941 spent some time instructing at the Normal School until 1942, when she was assigned to Hastings Park; a lengthy description of conditions, problems, attitudes, numbers, and babies in Japanese relocation camps. In the fall of 1942, Miss Hunter took an administration course at McGill, and in 1943 was student advisor in the health department; in 1944 she became director of nursing and remained so until her retirement in 1966. TRACK 2: A discussion of responding to community needs with examples of pre-natal clinics and the polio epidemic in 1946; the relationship between the health department and social agencies; the role of the public health nurse and how activities were chosen; changes and programs; how the role changed in the control of TB; changes that occurred in the nurses role in VD clinics; time study statistics on the division of a nurse's work; trends in the role of a public health nurse; shift to mental health, nutrition, counseling; introduction of more specialists. CALL NUMBER: T2004:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Public health nurse; response to change PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Hunter provides a day-in-the-life account, describing duties and responsibilities of the Director of Nursing; a description of responses to emergencies; the Fraser Valley flood of 1948; blood clinics; satisfactions of administration; struggles to get transportation; disposal equipment; traveling and activities with the Canadian Public Health Organisation and Canadian Nurses Association; the idea of public health and the issue of whom to serve; Miss Hunter relates the mystery story about the acceptance of the public health nurse. [TRACK 2: blank?]

CALL NUMBER: T1991:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Methodist Medical Missionary Work RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background; training as a Methodist minister; Dr. A.E. Bolton; Thomas Crosby; his ordination; Dr. Paton of Chilliwack; Naramata; CPR Hospital; Penticton General Hospital. TRACK 2: Theological training in Montreal, 1914; women in medical training; medical missionaries; career workers; First World War service in infantry in France; return to Vancouver in 1918. CALL NUMBER: T1991:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Methodist Medical Missionary Work RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-26 SUMMARY: Dr. John Spencer, 1888, training in California; Port Simpson work 1914 to 1924; Bella Bella; Hazelton; Dr. Horace Wrinch the politician; Dr. R. W. Large; hardship of life in isolated areas of BC before the First World War. CALL NUMBER: T1991:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Methodist Medical Missionary Work RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Large; United Church nurses; Matron Bedford, Port Simpson; Miss McDowell, Miss Irene McGee, Miss Bessie French; the medical missionary calling; appointment of Dr. Bunt as superintendent of home missions, BC; his work with United Church hospitals; relocation of Japanese-Canadians. TRACK 2: Role of Dr. Bunt in the relocation of Japanese-Canadians; publicity of medical missionary work; the 'Thomas Crosby' boats; boat call at Kitimat; government involvement in United churches. CALL NUMBER: T1991:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Methodist Medical Missionary Work RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-26 SUMMARY: Dr. George Darby of Bella Bella; his personal background; beginning medical work on the BC coast; Dr. Bunt's story of Dr. Darby's home; the hardship of living there; his Christian faith; Mrs. Darby and family in Vancouver for twenty years; honourary Indian title in 1944; honourary degrees at UBC; home mission conference; his role as superintendent.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Celina Starr RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-26 SUMMARY: Celina Starr discusses travelling to Terrace for a wedding. The burning of Port Essington in about 1960. Describes Port Essington and three canneries. The evacuation of Japanese people during the War. Cans shipped to Port Essington by steamer. Discusses Port Essington and businesses that were there. Names and discusses different people of the community. Describes the process of canning.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alice Person : rank and file -- women's issues in the wood industry RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1978-07-28 SUMMARY: Mrs. Person has been active in the IWA. She moved to Websters Corners from the prairies during the Depression; got a job in the wood industry during the war; and was active in organizing her plant. She became a member of the plant executive. She discusses relief; agricultural labour during the Depression; the Japanese internment; working conditions in wood; organizing the IWA and her plant; equal pay for equal work; attitudes to women workers; struggles against layoffs after the war. She and her sister were in the first group of women to be hired on at Hammond Cedar in 1942. Mrs. Person, although told by co-workers that "girls don't need as much", decided that equal pay was a woman's right, and this issue became a primary motivation for her and other women to join the union. She feels that many workers were inspired by the IWA leadership. Mrs. Person served as a steward and a warden on the executive.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Janet Judd : women postal workers, 1950s-1960s RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1979-07-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Janet Judd was hired as a part-time postal clerk and then became full-time in 1960. She was one of the first women to achieve this position. The conditions at that time in the post office were "horrifying"; no air conditioning; working for hours while standing; loss of hearing due to noise; mandatory examinations to determine wage increases. When she applied for work in the post office, she resisted placement in a clerical position and fought to become a clerk. Later, she fought to become the first woman dispatcher. Mrs. Judd was the sole support for eight children, and was pregnant when she began to work at the post office. Her case helped to establish both the principle of maternity leave for postal workers, and through this the recognition by the post office that women were a permanent part of the workforce there. TRACK 2: With other women clerks, she resisted male co-workers who harassed women clerks. She became active in the association as a steward. Some of the issues which came up consistently were: racist attitudes towards herself and other non-white workers; discrimination and patronage in hiring; the establishment of mirror surveillance systems in the bathrooms; establishing union recognition and the right to strike; shift changes and services for women with children. During the 1965 strike, management tried to bring scabs in through an old CPR tunnel; the union stopped this. Mrs. Judd had been a student at Strathcona School, and was deeply affected by the Japanese internment, as many of her closest friends were interned. She has been active in many Black organisations, including the Negro Citizens' League, and other civil rights groups.

Item consists of two audio recordings of an interview with Kiyoji Iizuka, a Japanese-Canadian immigrant. The first recording (T0113:0001) covers the time period of 1886-1915 and discusses Iizuka's birth in 1886, his life growing up in Japan, working on a British boat, arriving in Victoria in 1910, and working as a labourer until the age of 75, when he retired.

The second recording (T0113:0002) covers the time period of 1915-1918 and Iizuka describes being one of the Japanese volunteer soldiers in World War I. He mentions various battles and the injuries that he received during the three years he served overseas. There were 200 Japanese volunteers and over 50 had died by the end of the war.

A third recording was created, however the original reel and the reference cassette are blank. Based on the associated documentation, this portion of the interview covers the time period between 1915-1945. Iizuka discusses his rights as a Canadian and explains that he held the right to vote because he had fought in the war (only Japanese-Canadian veterans were eligible to vote). Iizuka explains that he voted for the C.C.F because they supported the Japanese against racism. He also discusses the lack of support he felt during the Second World War.

The first reel was recorded in Vancouver on October 24, 1972; the second reel was recorded in Vancouver on November 15, 1972; and the third reel was recorded in Vancouver on November 11, 1972.

CALL NUMBER: T0211:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Martha Moscrop : a social worker cannot be a Socialist RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-04-11 SUMMARY: Martha Moscrop was born in 1907 and was an adopted child. She attended Normal School and discusses sports; girls groups leading into social work; early Kitsilano; Joe -- English Bay lifeguard; WWI; chores; a tomboy; outdoor summers make child self-assured; never felt unequal to a man; reasons for not marrying; teaching in Alberta; teaching kindergarten at Japanese United Church; Rotary fresh air camp; teaching Pender Harbour Japanese fishermen; church camp leader; teaching in Kaslo and Invermere; putting on "The Mikado" in a community; Invermere; social work course at UBC; Family Welfare Bureau; integration of social work departments; evacuation of Japanese; services in Vancouver; social workers.

CALL NUMBER: T0211:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Martha Moscrop : a social worker cannot be a Socialist RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-05-24 SUMMARY: Martha Moscrop discusses the evacuation of the Japanese; administered by General Motors men; some examples of her work; some good in the evacuation; disposal of their assets, etc.; terrible -- but no political involvement; Social Welfare Department of B.C. training supervisor; social welfare legislation; social workers in-service training programs in B.C., Malaya, Hong Kong; England and Israel; presently (1973) writing a book on adult education.

CALL NUMBER: T0207:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John McRae "Rae" Eddie : the making of the union at Fraser Mills - the early days RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1973-05-04 SUMMARY: John McRae "Rae" Eddie was born in 1900 and worked at Fraser Mills from 1922 to 1947 after which he was on the International Workers of America (I.W.A.) payroll until 1965. He was also an MLA (N.D.P.) for New Westminster from 1952 until 1969. Rae discusses the early days at Fraser Mills, the early living and working conditions, the first attempts at union organization, and the workings of the early union. CALL NUMBER: T0207:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John McRae "Rae" Eddie : the making of the union at Fraser Mills - support, acceptance and dissent PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1950 RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1973-05-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Rae Eddie discusses the formation of their own local in 1942; the election of delegations to Canadian and international labour conventions: the red bloc and white bloc. Reaction of the Japanese, Chinese, and East Indians to the union. Eddie's opinion on the Japanese evacuation in World War II. His job as a lumber trimmer. Why he became interested in the union movement. Union membership obligations and secret membership drives. Difficulties in organizing Fraser Mills. Wartime labour relations. Women's wages. TRACK 2: Women in the mill and the union. Effects of the war and the return of veterans. Establishment of a closed shop. Results of union certification. Communist -- non-Communist rivalry for leadership of the union. The 1946 strike. The October Revolution and formation of the W.I.U.C. The barring of Communist from the I.W.A. CALL NUMBER: T0207:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John McRae "Rae" Eddie : the making of the union at Fraser Mills - union unity and progress PERIOD COVERED: 1947-1970 RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1973-05-14 SUMMARY: Rae Eddie discusses the October 3, 1948 "Revolution" of the I.W.A. and its aftermath. Eddie also briefly discusses his years as an MLA from 1952 to 1969. He makes comparisons and discusses the past, present and future of the union.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Unosuke Sakamoto : the last chairman of the Japanese Fishermen's Association RECORDED: Steveston (B.C.), 1973-02-22 SUMMARY: Unosuke Sakamoto was born in 1903 and came to Canada in 1919 where he has been a fisherman ever since, with the exception of the years 1942-1949. He was the last chairman of the Japanese Fishermen's Association and was involved in the sale of Japanese fishing boats when the Second World War started.

CALL NUMBER: T0198:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kishizo Kimura : Japanese fishing vessels disposal committee RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-12 SUMMARY: Kishizo Kimura was the only Japanese-Canadian member of the Japanese Fishing Vessels Disposal Committee. He discusses the way this committee was organized in December of 1941.;

CALL NUMBER: T0198:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kishizo Kimura : Japanese fishing vessels disposal committee RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-15 SUMMARY: Kishizo Kimura describes vessels, compensation for damages and special cases.;

CALL NUMBER: T0198:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kishizo Kimura : custodian RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-15 SUMMARY: Kishizo Kimura discusses how he was appointed as a member of the committee of custodians.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Amy Leigh : a pioneer social worker in B.C. interested in public welfare PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1963 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-03-30 SUMMARY: Amy Leigh was born in 1897 and discusses her immigration to Canada from England in 1913; Girl Guides; childhood; recollections; early jobs as a secretary; probation work; training at the University of Toronto School of Social Work; various social work jobs. TRACK 2: Jobs: Director of Welfare, Vancouver. Discussion of the Depression and radicalism. Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Director of Welfare, Vancouver, 1937-1943: decentralization; South Vancouver Experiment; Japanese evacuation. Assistant Director of Welfare for the province. Comments on social work. Retirement in 1958. Other jobs: teaching public welfare, University of Washington; Welfare Department in the Yukon; CNIB, Winnipeg and Ottawa, 1960s. General comments on public welfare: role of government; limits of financial aid.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Shigetaka Steve Sasaki : judo instruction in Canada PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1972 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-10-21 SUMMARY: Shigetaka Steve Sasaki was born in 1903 and came to Vancouver in 1922 to run a confectionary shop on Powell Street. He opened a judo hall called Kidokan which had 200 members. He was a judo instructor for the RCMP until World War II. He moved to Tashme Camp and later to Ashcroft. Ex-president of the Canadian Judo Association.

CALL NUMBER: T0106:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marie Magdalene Townsend : a study of experience in a rich and full life RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-10-27 SUMMARY: This interview was made using a "free expression" technique departing from the standard question and answer format. Marie Townsend was born in 1903 and speaks of her early life homesteading on the Saskatchewan prairie and covers that period of her life from her earliest memories up to the flu pandemic of 1918. CALL NUMBER: T0106:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marie Magdalene Townsend : a study of experience in a rich and full life RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-11-02 SUMMARY: Marie Townsend discusses her family life in detail including: homes, pioneer necessities, social activities, meal preparation, neighbours, festivals, religion in family. Many anecdotes are included. The "pioneer equality" of men and women is to be noted. Parental attitudes towards education are also mentioned. CALL NUMBER: T0106:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marie Magdalene Townsend : attitudes and personal character formation in early life RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-11-06 SUMMARY: Marie Townsend speaks of the influences in her early life from grandparents, parents, and community. Childbirth, marriage, and funeral customs are all discussed. Social attitudes in the community circa 1910 are mentioned. Marie Townsend establishes a good feeling for her home life and the lifestyle of the times. CALL NUMBER: T0106:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marie Magdalene Townsend : a convent schooling and nursing training RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-11-09 SUMMARY: Marie Townsend talks of her high school education and the routine of convent life. She attended the Ursuline Academy in Regina from the age of 13 to the age of 16. She then took training at the Grey Nuns Hospital in Regina and graduated as a nurse at the age of 19. This was followed by a post graduate course at Pense, Saskatchewan. She tells of her training as a nurse (1919-1921). CALL NUMBER: T0106:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marie Magdalene Townsend : combining career and children in the 1920s and early 1930s RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-11-10 SUMMARY: Marie Townsend compares attitudes between her generation and her mother's generation concerning childbirth and home making. Differences in social attitudes and child raising are also discussed. Marie worked as a dressmaker and a hairdresser in Pense, Saskatchewan, and earned her living as a dressmaker in Regina. She talks of the hair, cosmetic, and dress styles of the period. CALL NUMBER: T0106:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marie Magdalene Townsend RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-01-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Marie Townsend discusses the Depression of the 1930s and her move to Regina where she was a dressmaker. She recalls the On-to-Ottawa Trek, the Regina Riot, and refusing to go on relief. She had two children. The move to B.C. in 1940 at her doctor's suggestion and living in a Japanese house in Surrey during the internment. She discusses how everything was sold that had belonged to the Japanese, and how the people were carted away like cattle in trucks. Marie also boarded teachers during the 1940s, prior to her move to Essondale in 1945. As a nurse she worked extensively with mental patients, and discusses methods of treatment including lobotomies. TRACK 2: Marie Townsend discusses mental illness, nervous breakdowns, strait jackets, medication, isolation, shock treatment, hairdressing mental patients, and public opinions. After having two strokes and recovering in bed for seventeen months Marie returned to nursing, as a private nurse for mostly cancer patients, until 1970. She compares the times of old with those of 1973, evaluating living conditions and values.

CALL NUMBER: T0103:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tatsuro Suzuki discusses his family background and role of Japanese-Canadians PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1950 RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1972-11-09 SUMMARY: Tatsuro "Buck" Suzuki was born in 1916, after his father had come from Japan in 1905. Worked for a Japanese man in a salted-salmon plant on Dorn Island. 47 families lived in the area. Description of Japanese rituals and festivals. Member of the Japanese Fisherman's Union. Organized the Japanese-Canadian Citizen's Association. CALL NUMBER: T0103:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tatsuro Suzuki tells of the social conditions of Japanese-Canadians 1920-1945 PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1950 RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1972-11-09 SUMMARY: Buck Suzuki discusses the problems Japanese-Canadian's faced upon arrival in Canada. He continues to describe race relations during the period 1920-1945. He mentions how the Japanese-Canadians handled discrimination in this period. He tells of the impact of the Depression upon the Japanese. The reactions of British Columbians to World War II. The struggle to get enfranchisement for Japanese-Canadians. CALL NUMBER: T0103:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tatsuro Suzuki describes internment and military service during WWII. PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1945 RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1972-11-09 SUMMARY: Buck Suzuki relates the reaction of the Japanese-Canadians to internment camps. He joined the Canadian armed forces and was eventually sent overseas on loan to military intelligence in the British Army during World War II.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mildred Fahrni : memoirs of a social activist RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-26 SUMMARY: Mildred Fahrni discusses her life as a university student, grad student at Bryn Mawr, social worker in London at Kingsley Hall Settlement House (including work with Gandhi). Her return to Vancouver in throes of Depression, intending to work as a teacher but, upon learning the employment situation, worked with the YW-YMCA and then went to New Denver to teach Japanese children of internees. Also mentions briefly her work with the Fellowship of Reconciliation Peace Action Group and travel society.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Howard and Gwen Norman : Canadian missionaries in Japan, 1932-1971 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-06-03 SUMMARY: Howard and Gwen Norman discuss Japanese-Canadians in World War II. Life in Japan before and after WWII. The history of the Canadian Methodist mission to Japan.;

CALL NUMBER: T0077:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hirowo Aoki RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-22 SUMMARY: Hirowo Aoki was born in 1921 in Cumberland, B.C., the son of the principal of the Japanese Language School. His parents are graduates of the Teachers Training School in Tokyo. His father majored in Oriental Philosophy. Hirowo attended public school during the day and Japanese school in the evenings. Generally the Japanese children found the subject of English composition pretty hard but no trouble in the other subjects.

CALL NUMBER: T0077:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hirowo Aoki RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-09 SUMMARY: Hirowo Aoki's family came to Vancouver and his father was the principal of one of the Japanese language schools there. He graduated high school and could find only labour jobs. His brother received a BA in Commerce and had to work in sawmills. When the war came Hirowo Aoki went to Salmon Arm to build a sawmill with a friend, but gave up and joined his family in Alberta. He worked as a mechanic for B.C. Hydro until he became and independent concert musician.

CALL NUMBER: T0076:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ellen Enomoto RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-16 SUMMARY: Ellen Enomoto was born in 1922 in Canada and is a high school graduate. Her parents came from Japan in their teens and her grandfather and father bought a drugstore on Powell Street. At first the family lived in Fairview where she started to go to school. Since her grandmother went back to Japan, her family moved to Powell Street to look after the grandfather, until he eventually returned to Japan as well.

CALL NUMBER: T0076:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ellen Enomoto RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-16 SUMMARY: Ellen Enomoto attended the Japanese Language School everyday after public school but she did not find it useful so she quit when she started attending senior high school. After graduating she kept learning piano and was a music major for two years. The family moved to Minto, a self-supporting evacuation centre, in 1942 when she married Mr. Enomoto who was a car mechanic. He worked at sawmills and a garage in Bralorne. They later managed a wok-house for the sawmill in Lac La Hache until 1960.

CALL NUMBER: T0075:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Seiji Inouye : on his early years in Canada PERIOD COVERED: 1922-1930 RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-05-13 SUMMARY: Seiji Inoye was born in 1906 in Japan and came to Canada in 1922, although his father had been to Canada and returned to Japan. Early life in Japan. When he came to Canada he worked at Britannia Mine and Hastings Sawmill. He had 8 years of education in Japan and was a bank clerk before coming to Canada. CALL NUMBER: T0075:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Seiji Inouye : garage owner PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1940 RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-05-13 SUMMARY: Seiji Inouye worked in the mine and sawmill and at night he studied English. He thought that the garage business would have a good future so he became an apprentice at a garage owned by another Japanese. He worked there for 10 years until he opened his own garage with a partner. CALL NUMBER: T0075:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Seiji Inouye : a garage owner faces WWII PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1945 RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-05-15 SUMMARY: Seiji Inouye speaks about the cars in the 1930s and his job as a mechanic. He discusses what kind of problems the cars had and how well his business went on. When World War II first came he was evacuated to Kelowna and then moved his family there. Allowed to live in Kelowna until the war ended. He then moved to Oyama, B.C. CALL NUMBER: T0075:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Seiji Inouye returns to Vancouver after World War II to reopen a garage PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1972 RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-05-16 SUMMARY: Seiji Inouye lived in Kelowna for four years, before moving with his family to Oyama for five years where he worked in an orchard. They enjoyed living in the Okanagan with animals around and good fresh food. They came back to Vancouver in 1951 and started the garage business again.

CALL NUMBER: T0069:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ryuichi Yoshida : a Japanese-Canadian's early years in Canada PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1940 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1972-04-27, 28, 29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ryuichi Yoshida came to Canada in 1910 at the age of 23 after graduating law school in Japan. He travelled in the United States before settling down as a fisherman in the summer and a logger in the winter. He discusses fishing near Steveston, Rivers Inlet, and the Skeena. Worked on the CPR railroad between Cumberland and Port Alberni. Description of logging camps and camp life. Japanese working in camps. Discussion of fishing. TRACK 2: Continued discussion of fishing. Problems of being a Japanese fisherman and problems with discrimination. Discussion of cannery operations. More on working in logging camps. CALL NUMBER: T0069:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ryuichi Yoshida : struggle for awareness by Japanese-Canadians PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1940 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1972-04-27, 28, 29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Formation of labour unions by Japanese for protection against discrimination. Japanese Labour Union accepted all kinds of workers. Mr. Yoshida edited the weekly labour magazine "Rodo Shuho". Problems with the Anti-Asiatic Society. Worked on the "Minshu" daily paper. Did a lot of research on labour under the sponsorship of the Japanese Association. Attempt to break control of the Japanese ;Association over labour. Succeeded in getting different branches independent of Association. In 1923 discussion of union attempt to get fairer treatment for Japanese workers. TRACK 2: Problems of getting controversial article published in Japanese newspapers. Discussion of the "Continental Times". The establishment of "Minshu" and personality conflicts related to it. Attempts to speak out for Japanese workers against "bosses". Worked to improve the awareness of Japanese in Canada. Growing anti-orientalism during the 1920s. Important role of the Japanese Government in relation to Japanese in Canada. Unions against influence of Japanese Government. Picture brides. Prostitution among Japanese. CALL NUMBER: T0069:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ryuichi Yoshida : Japanese imperialism and the growth of anti-orientalism PERIOD COVERED: 1926-1940 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1972-04-27, 28, 29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Continued discussion of the role of the Japanese Consulate with Japanese in Canada. Attempts by Consulate to increase nationalistic fervour towards Japan. Struggle between Union and Consulate. Complete role of Consulate unknown to most Japanese in Canada. Increase in discrimination against Japanese. CCF fights against racism. Government attempts to restrict fishing licences of Japanese. Japanese banking in the early period, Nikka Ginko Bank in Vancouver. TRACK 2: Discussion of the "Tairiko Jiho" newspaper and the "Minshu" newspaper. Organizing Japanese workers. Importance of union. Involvement of the Japanese fishermen in the 1932 strike. Discussion of the struggle for the enfranchisement of the Japanese. Racial relations and the help of the CCF. CALL NUMBER: T0069:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ryuichi Yoshida : Japanese-Canadian social life and conditions prior to WWII PERIOD COVERED: 1915-1941 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1972-04-27, 28, 29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gambling by Japanese-Canadians at the Showa Club. Discussion of Union activities. Ryuichi Yoshida's work as a fisherman just prior to World War II. Restrictions on Japanese fishermen and discrimination. Recruitment of Japanese for World War I. More on gambling at the Showa Club. More on Union activities. Additional information of Japanese volunteers during World War I. TRACK 2: Social problems in the Japanese community -- fights, etc. Role of Japanese imperialism before World War II. The beginning of World War II and the treatment of the Japanese. Being sent to an internment camp. CALL NUMBER: T0069:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ryuichi Yoshida : internment of Japanese during WWII PERIOD COVERED: 1939-1946 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1972-04-27, 28, 29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Struggles within Japanese community concerning internment. Choice between road camps and internment camps. Being locked up in Hastings Park. Influence of Japanese imperialism on the Japanese ;community in Canada. Problems of discrimination at the outbreak of World War II. Life in internment camps. Living in Roseberry camp near New Denver. End of WWII. Government pressure to return to Japan or go east. Conflicts in Japanese community about going back to Japan. TRACK 2: Belief by many Japanese that Japan would win war. When Japan lost many did not want to return after all. Moved to the east. Government help in relocation in the east.

CALL NUMBER: T0062:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A. Takeo Arakawa : a Japanese-Canadian businessman PERIOD COVERED: 1922-1949 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-21 SUMMARY: A. Takeo Arakawa was appointed to work in the Vancouver branch of the Tamura Shokai in 1926. He was a landed immigrant. He worked in the bank and trade department of the same firm until 1933. He got married and started his own business, a grocery store. He worked in a fruit packaging plant in Winfield during the Second World War. He is now President of the Trans-Pacific Trading Company.

CALL NUMBER: T0062:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A. Takeo Arakawa describes his life during World War II PERIOD COVERED: 1941-1972 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-21 SUMMARY: A. Takeo Arakawa describes his first opportunity to vote as a Canadian citizen. He also discusses his life during World War II and the evacuation.

CALL NUMBER: T0061:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kantaro Kadota : head millwright and superintendant of Japanese workers PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1972 RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1972-04-10 SUMMARY: Kantaro Kadota talks about his family background in Japan. His boyhood in Hokkaido. He became a Christian. His desire to learn modern sawmills led him to come to Canada early in the twentieth century. Got a job working for the pulp and sawmill in Swanson Bay, then Englewood. He was a superintendant of Japanese workers. CALL NUMBER: T0061:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kantaro Kadota : head millwright and superintendant of Japanese workers RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1972 SUMMARY: [No documentation on T0061:0002.] CALL NUMBER: T0061:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kantaro Kadota : head millwright and shipbuilder PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1910 RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1972-05-11 SUMMARY: Kantaro Kadota left Japan in 1905 for Canada to learn about sawmills. In Vancouver he worked for various sawmills. He studied English at the church at night for a year and eight months. After that he got a job with Whalen Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd. of Swanson Bay. He became the head millwright there in 1908. CALL NUMBER: T0061:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kantaro Kadota : Japanese-Canadian head millwright and shipbuilder PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1958 RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1972-05-11 SUMMARY: Kantaro Kadota was concerned about the quality of life for Japanese workers. He attempted to reform them by doing away with drinking and gambling. He cleared the professional gamblers out of his mills. During the Second World War he worked in a shipyard. He went back to Japan with an exchange boat in 1943. He stayed there until 1958 when he returned to Canada as a landed immigrant.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hisako Hoshino PERIOD COVERED: 1937-1972 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1972-04-29 SUMMARY: Hisako Hoshino was born in 1914 in Japan and came to Canada in 1937 as a wife of a drugstore owner on Powell Street in Vancouver. The business did very well until they had to evacuate during the Second World War. Her husband became ill and died in 1945. Hisako went to work as a cook in a Doukhobor childrens' school for four years and then as a chef in Pavillion, B.C.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kuri Takenaka PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1972 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1972-04-26 SUMMARY: Kuri Takenaka was born in 1912 in Japan and married in 1930 at the age of 18. Came to Canada with her husband, Mr. Takenaka, a handyman who had lived in Canada since 1922. Mr. Takenaka's father was a fisherman. Kuri attended Mora School in Vancouver for a year to learn to be a hairdresser. They moved to Woodfibre where Kuri opened her own barbershop, and Mr. Takenaka worked in the sawmill as a handyman. Her barbershop was in business for 9 years before WWII started and they moved to Kaslo camp. After the war they moved to New Denver where Kuri has a barbershop.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Shoichi Matsushita RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1972-04-25 SUMMARY: Mr. Shoichi Matsushita was born in 1914 and was a tuberculosis patient. He was first put in the temporary sanatorium in the Exhibition Park in Vancouver at the beginning of the war. He was later sent to the sanatorium in New Denver. He worked as an orderly after eight months when he recovered. Married in 1945 to Mrs. Matsushita who was a nurse aid. He was also foreman of the Japanese camp to negotiate acquisition of the lots where the Japanese people's houses are standing.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jiro Kobayashi PERIOD COVERED: 1907-1972 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1972-04-25 SUMMARY: Jiro Kobayashi came to Canada at age 21 in 1907 to study about North American farming for two years. He was a graduate of the school of agriculture in Osaka. He traveled in the Pacific Northwest to look at farming. He came to Vancouver and started a potato farm on Lulu Island. After five difficult years he gave up farming and went to the Skeena River as a fisherman. Stayed for eight years. Worked as a sawmill worker. Then became a landlord. During the war he was in Tashme Camp. Moved to New Denver and was a house painter.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Asamatsu Murakami RECORDED: Richmond (B.C.), 1972-03-09 & 15 SUMMARY: Asamatsu Murakami was born in 1885 in Japan. Came to Steveston in 1898 with his older brother. Went to school for half a year, then engaged in fishing all his life except during the war, when he and his family when to Alberta to work for a sugarbeet farm. His oldest son is a fisherman.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hideo Kokubo RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-04-11 & 12 SUMMARY: Hideo Kokubo was born in 1912 in Canada the eldest son of a fisherman. He started fishing at age 12. Since he was the eldest he had to work to support the family. His parents went back to Japan with his eldest daughter before the war started. During the war he was put in an internment camp for five years while his family was in the interior. He went back to Japan, worked for US camp, and came back to Canada in 1957.