"Discrimination Patterns with Change in Population Size of Urban Centres: A Case Study of Indians in Southwestern British Columbia." "Tashme, British Columbia: An Existing Non-Entity.". M.A. Theses. Simon Fraser University, 1971.

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): United Church missionary to Japan and Soowahlie Indian Band in Chilliwack PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1960 RECORDED: Chilliwack (B.C.), 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss May McLachan was born in Manitoba in 1895. Training as a teacher and missionary. Missionary work in Japan, 1923-1942. Taught Japanese-Canadian children in the internment camp at Tashme, B.C., 1943-1945. Returned to Japan as missionary after World War II, 1947-1963. TRACK 2: Missionary work in Japan continued. Missionary work with Soowahlie Indian Band near Chilliwack, 1964 on.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A Japanese minister in Canada, 1935-1945 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1975-06-30 SUMMARY: Reverend Yoshio Ono's memories of life in a Christian family in Japan. Study for the ministry in Canada in the 1930s. The Japanese evacuation in World War II: Hastings Park Camp and Tashme.;

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: T4122:0001 - 0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Japanese internment camp at Tashme, B.C. : second interview RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1984-02-08 SUMMARY: Winifred Awmack, who graduated from UBC in 1940, was sent to Tashme, B.C., by the United Church to provide schooling for the children of the Japanese internees. She taught there from 1944 to 1946. She describes the camp living conditions, school courses, her pupils, and other people in the community.

CALL NUMBER: T4122:0003 - 0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Japanese internment camp at Tashme, B.C. : first interview RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1984-02-06 SUMMARY: Winifred Awmack, who graduated from UBC in 1940, was to Tashme, B.C., by the United Church to provide schooling for the children of the Japanese internees. She taught there from 1944 to 1946. She describes the camp living conditions, school courses, her pupils, and other people in the community. [NOTE: The subjects covered in tapes 3 and 4 are similar but not identical to those on tapes 1 and 2, because the first tapes done (on 6-Feb-1984) were thought to have been lost.]; 4122:4 side 2 contains a Peter Gzowski interview with Joy Kogawa about Japanese Canadians and her book "Obasan". This was probably copied by Chambers off the radio and cannot be reproduced by the BC Archives.

CALL NUMBER: T4122:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tashme's final months RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1985-02-21 SUMMARY: Winifred Awmack discusses the final months at Tashme relocation camp.