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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 hour building internment shacks on n 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. Kirsten Hildebrand photo They used a wood stove for cooking and heating. It“Rice couldwas be the brusselsand sprouts eyesgreen or the absence of a thumb. It could be its predisposition to melt in the backseat. For some reason this hitchhiker wasn’t getting rationed we for made a lift out of Nelson on Wednesday morning. Prime snowman making temperatures may be behind us for a few days now with the forecast calling for a cooling trend. tea from alfalfa leaves,â€? he says. “We had a garden arden and also bought vegetabless from the DoukABOVE —Even hobors who camee in horse horse-driven driven Kootenay Lake before WorldHospital War II, wagons.â€? Japanese Canadians Tagami, now 85, was born at like Yosh Tagami Genoa Bay on Vancouver Island were ďŹ ngerprinted and raised at Paldi, a sawmill and photographed community near Duncan. He forculidentity cardsSeptember, started getting placed on the bed of the CT scanner fundraising effort in early had fourcommunity brothers and two SAM VAN SCHIE when they turned in the hospitala purchasing headache 16. and images were taken of inside the spells and vomiting. Nelson Star Reporter sisters. minated Their father Jirosaku, RIGHT — Thouthe $1.3 million piece of equipment The Purcells’ doctor ordered an girl’s head. millwright, was injured in a fall sands of internees Andrea Purcell has seen the ben- used to take two-dimensional im- emergency CT scan for the little The test revealed a massive tuto the work, so the sons were sent to Slocan efit that comes with having a and CT unable girl, and two days later Paige be- mour growing on her cerebellum, ages of body’s interior. began logging teenagers. scanner at Kootenay Lake HospiMore as than 2,000 patients ac-where came the youngest patient to get a pushing on her brain stem. The City they ental. The Bonnington mother says cessed Nelson’s CT Scanner doctors explained the situation to last primitive CT scanliving at KLH. dured Storyamong continues the diagnostic imaging equipment year, themto was three-yearconditions.Andrea watched from behind Story continues to ‘Tagami’ Page who 3 saved her daughter’s life. old Paigeon Purcell had (Tak beenToyota a barricade photo) as her baby, who had ‘24/7’ on Page 19 It’s been a year since a massive sick for a number of months and, been sedated for the procedure, was
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