Item AAAB0077 - Seiji Inoye interview

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.