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More than 65 years ago Japanese Canadians were forcibly removed from their homes on British Columbia’s coast and brought to internment camps in places like the Slocan Valley during the height of the Second World War. Today those who lived through the ordeal tell stories of struggle, sadness, and forgiveness. Here’s one such tale... GREG NESTEROFF
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ongtime Nelson resident Yosh Tagami mi remembers working for 25 cents an n hour building internment shacks on the Popoff farm near Slocan City. He was 17 and his family would soon move intoo one of those houses, which measured 14 x 25 feet. “The first winter was cold with four feet of snow, and icicles formed inside so we put cardboard from boxes on the walls,â€? he says. There was no insulation beyond paper and shiplap, and no indoor plumbing. Wooden bunk beds lay at either end of the house with a kitchen in the middle. They used a wood stove for cooking and Kirsten Hildebrand photo heating. “Rice was rationed and we made green crew ofalfalfa brave and/or folks took quicka plunge Kootenay teaA from leaves,crazy â€? he says. “Weahad garden and also Lake at noon on New Year’s Day. The Polar Bear Dip is an annual event organized to raise funds for ardeninto the Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation. See more photos page 2. bought vegetabless from the DoukABOVE —Even hobors who camee in horse horse-driven driven before World War II, wagons.â€? Japanese Canadians Place Tagami, now 85, was born atThe Learning like Yosh Tagami Genoa Bay on Vancouver Island were ďŹ ngerprinted and raised at Paldi, a sawmill and photographed community near Duncan. He for identity cards had fournot-for-profi brothers andt two organizationswhen and they one-to-one tutoring, ESL classes, learning. turned 16. KIRSTEN HILDEBRAND sisters. Their father Jirosaku, a people across British Columbia to “Having a shared space for litMother Goose program, cyber seRIGHT — ThouNelson Star Reporter millwright, was injured in a fallto address find innovative solutions eracy has really strengthened the niors basic computer classes, Books sands of internees pressing socialsochallenges. bridges between people who proEverywhere, library literacy workand unable to work, the sons were sent Nelson’s Learning Place, a local to Slocan Joan Exley, literacy outreach vide services for adults in the com- shops, literacy drop-in times and literacy centre, has been awarded began logging as teenagers. City where they enmuch more. $5,000 in a competition that rec- coordinator for the Columbia Ba- munity,â€? says Exley. dured primitive living sin Alliance for Literacy explains Programs that run out of the ognizes good ideas. Story continues to conditions. the Nelsononproject a shared Learning Place, located in the lowStory continues to The province-wide competition, ‘Tagami’ Page boasts 3 (Tak photo) andToyota er level of City Hall, include adult ‘Partnerships’ on Page 4 BC Ideas, engaged communities, space for focusing on literacy
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