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A. Takeo Arakawa interview

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.

Alexander Harris, Eugene Petersen and Hal Wright : [Sandon interviews]

CALL NUMBER: T1147:0002 [and T2744:0001]
RECORDED: Sandon (B.C.), 1972
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: (1) ALEXANDER (SANDY) HARRIS of New Denver discusses the town of Sandon. His father came to Sandon in 1897 to mine silver/lead. Harris discusses the area's geology; Eli Carpenter, who pioneered mining in the area; and a dispute between Carpenter and his partner, Jack Seaton. He discusses the geography around Sandon; life there after the First World War; a murder; the town's organization; and why Sandon was abandoned in 1955, after a flood. There was no gold at Sandon, but there was a boom in mining silver and lead there. He discusses Gene Peterson, the only resident of Sandon as of 1972. Harris claims that organized ice hockey originated there in 1904.
TRACK 2: Mr. Harris discusses the Japanese people who lived in Sandon. During World War II, there was a heavy demand for the mine's resources. The government's role in moving the Japanese to the Slocan, and the character of the Japanese. After the war, the Japanese were moved east by the government. He discusses the effects of the 1955 flood. He discusses his life in the area; he eventually became the owner of the New Denver water works and power plant. The Sandon hydro plant was built in 1898 by Johnny Harris, a major contributor to the town's development. He describes the layout of Sandon, including its opera house and entertainments. (2) EUGENE (GENE) PETERSEN is interviewed. Peterson is one of the few people still living in Sandon. He discusses the other people who live there; the population of 5000 who lived there in the late 1800s; a fire which caused the town to be rebuilt; Sandon's founding in 1892, and the staking rush shortly thereafter. He discusses his father (who came from Norway to Sandon in 1923) and describes life in Sandon in the 1920s. He recalls the town being well organized, but with no highway connection; its dependence on the railway; the orderly conduct of its residents; and the local prostitutes, known for helping out miners who were broke. [Interview continued on next tape.]

CALL NUMBER: T1147:0001 [and T2744:0002]
RECORDED: Sandon (B.C.), 1972
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: EUGENE PETERSEN recalls the history of Sandon through various mining booms, up until its present condition as a ghost town. He discusses the 1929 murder of miner Sigvald Myklebost [Petersen says "1927"]; the killer was never convicted. An anecdote about how little law-breaking there was in Sandon. The “exodus” started during the depression in the 1930s. In the 1940s there were only 40 people. There was a slight increase in population in the 1950s, when 700 people lived in the town. The town emptied out again in the fall of 1953, when the population went down to 100. The flood of June 1955, in which half of the town was destroyed. The local power plant, built in 1896. He discusses what would be involved in the preservation of Sandon. He describes the silver-lead ore found at Sandon. Petersen still finds ore in the area, but it is not a big money maker. He plans on staying in Sandon until he works out his mining claim. (4) HAL WRIGHT, formerly of Saltspring Island, discusses his efforts to establish a museum at Sandon in the summer of 1972, working under an OFY grant. The museum displays local relics, along with photographs he acquired from the BC Archives. Wright is staying in Sandon through the winter. He plans on working for a carpenter and finishing school by correspondence. (5) EUGENE PETERSEN then discusses ghosts in the town. One of the remaining houses caught on fire, and he heard knocking on his door; no one was there, but there was a fire down the street.
[TRACK 2 is described separately; see AAAB1272.]

Alfie Kamitakahara interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alfie Kamitakahara : Japanese in Steveston - community life and evacuation RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972?-08-15 SUMMARY: Alfie Kamitakahara discusses the Japanese and their community life in Steveston, and their evacuation during World War II. [Very little documentation is available for this tape.];

Art Moore interview

CALL NUMBER: T2049:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Art Moore RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-27 SUMMARY: Art Moore started fishing in 1930 when he got his first license. You were not allowed in those days to get a license until you were 14 years old. He tells of how he went fishing when he was 13 and hid in the boat from the fisheries officer, as he had no license. He says the fisheries officer knew he was there but he never interfered with Art. The license cost $1.00. That fisheries officer is dead now. Pollution so bad in the North Arm that the vast number of salmon going up has been drastically reduced, due to mills, etc. Claims that the mills dump their vats into the river when everyone is sleeping. Millions of fish have been killed by pollution. "If they don't watch this a little closer there won't be a salmon left". "The Fraser is the largest spawning salmon river in the world". Moore also attributes the decrease in salmon to the population explosion and consequential raw sewage outfall. Moore caught typhoid on the Fraser and also a disease on his face. Deep-water ships used to come into the Terra Nova Cannery. Now these ships can't get within 5 miles of the cannery on account of the fill on the river and the flats. Recounts a story of one of his friends, Mr. Takahashi, who celebrated the bombing of Pearl Harbour: "They actually believed that they were going to take our country". Of all they boys that Art Moore went to school with (in his last year) he is the only one still alive. Recounts the story of a classmate named Yeta who had poor eyesight and was a good friend of his. When Yeta was 18 he had to go to Japan for military training and he was put into the front lines (in a trench) in the Manchurian War and was machine-gunned to death by a bi-plane. Recounts the story of another friend who went to Japan for military training and came back selling bonds. Art Moore claims that the Japanese-Canadians got paid more for their boats and land than they ever paid for them. CALL NUMBER: T2049:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Art Moore RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-29 SUMMARY: Art Moore recounts stories of incidents concerning Japanese submarines on the B.C. coast during the War (the shelling of Estevan Point etc.) Recounts the story of Jack Homer who got a shell from a Canadian war vessel show through his bow (this happened on the B.C. coast).

Asamatsu Murakami interview

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.

Ellen Enomoto interview

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.

George Ellerbeck interview ; Stan Douglas interview

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): George Ellerbeck - 1 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: George Ellerbeck discusses the history of the Stave Lake Cedar shingle mill, which became a division of Canadian Forest Products in 1943. He joined the mill as a shingle packer in 1939, and in 1974 was Assistant Supervisor and Personnel Supervisor. [No content summary is available for this interview.]

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0002 item 1 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): George Ellerbeck - 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The George Ellerbeck interview continues for the first half of track 1.

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0002 item 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Stan Douglas - 1 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 (item 2) & TRACK 2: Stan Douglas discusses the history of the Stave Lake Cedar shingle mill from about 1934 to 1967. [No content summary is available for this interview.]

CALL NUMBER: T1387:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Stan Douglas - 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: Continuation of the Stan Douglas interview.

George Nitta interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Japanese community RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-01-26 SUMMARY: Mr. Nitta discusses life as a Japanese-Canadian in the Strathcona neighbourhood of Vancouver. In particular, he describes his family's background in Canada; racism before the war; living on Mayne Island; Powell Street before the war; and the Japanese evacuation during World War II.

Gorge Kosaka interview

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), [1982-05-15?] SUMMARY: Recollections of a Japanese family's associations with the whaling industry at Rose Harbour, Q.C.I., between the approximate years 1912-1918. Parents immigrated to Canada in 1905, father had been a surveyor in Japan, university-educated. He became foreman of Japanese station crews. Came to Canada for new "opportunity". Interview touches on fate of family's fortunes to present time -- a dramatic turn with WWII deportation to Alberta. (Subject is nearly blind as a result of an industrial accident in adult life.).

Gwen Norman interview

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.;

Hideo Kokubo interview : [Koizumi & Marlatt, 1973]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hideo Kokubo : modern life in Steveston RECORDED: Steveston (B.C.), 1973-01-17 SUMMARY: Hideo Kokubo discusses how Steveston was no longer a Japanese town following the Second World War. The Japanese and white people mingled and the white population increased. The Japanese find their pre;sent life (1973) far more enjoyable than prior to the war.;

Hideo Kokubo interview : [Koizumi, 1972]

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.

Hideo Onotera interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-16 SUMMARY: Interview with Hideo Onotera regarding Japanese workers and the WW II Japanese internment.;

Hirowo Harry Aoki interview

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.

Hisako Hoshino interview

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.

Inokichi Kubota interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Inokichi Kubota RECORDED: Steveston (B.C.), 1972-03-28 SUMMARY: Inokichi Kubota was born in 1879 in Japan. Went to the Japan-Russia war in 1904. Came to Canada in 1907. Worked as a fisherman for about 30 years in herring seasons. At the same time he was a farmer. Later he worked for CPR in Ontario until he retired in 1955.

Itono Hamamoto interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Itono Hamamoto : a Japanese-Canadian school teacher PERIOD COVERED: 1927-1972 RECORDED: Steveston (B.C.), 1972 SUMMARY: Itono Hamamoto came to Canada when she was 33 years old with her daughter to join her parents, sister and husband. She was a school teacher in Japan and in Steveston for 15 years. The Hamamoto family went to Grand Forks to do farming during and after WWII for about 10 years. Mr. Hamamoto, a strawberry farmer and fisherman, died in 1969. Mrs. Hamamoto has a daughter and a son.

Jack Chisnall interview : [Stevenson, 1976]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jack Chisnall RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1976-02-12 SUMMARY: Jack Chisnall was born in Ontario in 1893 and came to B.C. in 1916; his wife came from Edinburgh, Scotland in 1911. Started logging in B.C., and fished and logged in Rivers Inlet. Fished 5 or 6 days a week in the old days. There were 13 canneries in Rivers Inlet at the time. Boats caught about 500 salmon, at 17 cents a piece for sockeye in 1916. You couldn't make a living at fishing alone, you had to go logging or trapping in the winter. Only made $2.50 a day for 10 hours of logging. Many Indian and Japanese fishermen. Japanese weren't allowed to log, and after WWII they weren't allowed to fish where they wanted. Fishermen at the time were organized into a union called The Fishermen and Cannery Workers' Industrial Union. The price of fish picked up in the 1950s. Steveston fishermen used to go up the coast for sockeye then return to San Juan Straits. Canned spring salmon for tourists. Cans were soldered by hand by Chinese workers. Dr. Darby. Paid by the fish until about 1949 when they started paying by the pound: ie. Dog salmon 3 cents a pound when it used to be 3 cents a fish. Comments on the return of Japanese fishermen. During the war they had more trouble with the Canadian Navy than with any enemy. Used to work at Celtic shipyards in the winter time. Discusses the American taking most of the fish up in the Alaska panhandle and their lack of conservation measures. Foreign fleets and pollution are also taking their toll. Steamships. Lots of drinking and bootlegging.

Jiro Kobayashi interview

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.

Kantaro Kadota interview

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.

Ken Elston interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ken Elston RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-10 SUMMARY: Ken Elston started in B.C. Packers as a brine man in 1942. The fish were cut and immersed in a brine tank for 15 or 20 minutes then bailed out and canned. He then became a tallyman. Fish weren't weighed as much then as some were just counted. He worked as a tallyman until 1936 (?). The cannery houses were on both sides of the dyke all the way from the western extremity of Steveston to east of Number Two Road. Each camp had a cluster of houses. Mostly Japanese people lived in cannery houses. The houses were taken down in the late 1940s and early 1950s. There used to be many more Chinese people working in the canneries. There used to be a Chinese contractor who hired the cannery employees except key-people. There was no overtime then. When the union came in the contractors began to disappear. The internment of the Japanese people disturbed the fishing industry more than the canning industry. Native people have become scarce as cannery employees in the 30 years he has been working. He attributes this lack of Native people to the lack of suitable housing. Cannery employees' term of employment has gotten longer. The machinery in the canneries is far different from when he started 30 years ago. Discusses the "steam box" which was a method of extracting the air out of tins. Discusses another machine called the "can unscrambler" which sorted the cans and fed the filling tables. He says that the economy of the canning industry necessitated its centralization. In 1935-1936 B.C. Packers was also operating a pet food operation. In the early years B.C. Packers did not have a very diversified line of products. Crab is now (1976) becoming more scarce.

Kishizo Kimura interview

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.;

Kiyo Goto interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mrs. Kiyo Goto RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-08&11 SUMMARY: Mrs. Kiyo Goto was born in 1897 in Japan. Father in San Francisco. She came to Canada in 1915 to marry a farm worker on Salt Spring Island. She worked hard days and nights as a housekeeper and washing woman. She managed to save enough money to open a restaurant on Powell Street in Vancouver. She later opened a brothel on Hastings Street. She was put in Oakalla for three months for resistance and then she moved to Greenwood where she eventually opened up a gambling house successfully. She says that the money she earned by these means did not stay with her.

Kiyoji Iizuka interview

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.

Kuri Takenaka interview

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.

Miss M. Upshall interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-02-04 SUMMARY: Miss M. Upshall was the First Metropolitan health nurse, ca.1936. Looked after schools (Japanese); pre-natal care program. [Very little documentation is available for this tape.];

Mr. And Mrs. Shoichi Matsushita interview

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.

Mrs. J.B. Bothwell interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-02-03 SUMMARY: Mrs. J.B. Bothwell was a school teacher in Steveston, ca. 1920. Good details. School rules. Community life. Japanese. Finnish. Home remedies. [Very little documentation is available for this tape.];

Provincial Archives of British Columbia audio interviews, 1974-1992

  • GR-3377
  • Series
  • 1974-1992

The series consists of oral history interviews recorded by staff members and research associates of the Provincial Archives of B.C. Major subject areas include: political history (especially the Coalition era, the W.A.C. Bennett years, and David Barrett's NDP government); ethnic groups (including Chinese- and Japanese-Canadans); frontier and pioneer life; the forest industry; B.C. art and artists; the history of photography, filmmaking and radio broadcasting in the province; and the history of Victoria High School.

The interviewers include: Kathryn Bridge, Janet Cauthers, David Day, Patrick Dunae, Terry Eastwood, Merna Forster, Eric Gee, Frances Gundry, Maya Koizumi, W.J. Langlois, Charles Lillard, Theresa Low, Indiana Matters, David Mattison, Patriick May, David Mitchell, Constantine Nikitiuk, Andrew Petter, Derek Reimer, Allen W. Specht, Loree Stewart, and Reuben Ware.

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