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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...
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ongtime Nelson resident Yosh Tagami mi remembers working for 25 cents an n hour building internment shacks on KIRSTEN HILDEBRAND He the Popoff farm near Slocan City. Nelson Star Reporter was 17 and his family would soon move intoo North family spent the wee 14 hours oneAof thoseShore houses, which measured x of Saturday morning 25 feet. trapped inside an upstairs bedroom, “unable to “The escape� a black bearwith roamed firstwhile winter was cold four the feetdownstairs of their home. of snow, and icicles formed inside so we e terrifying ordeal began at walls, 4 a.m.� when the famputTh cardboard from boxes on the ily, living in the Redfish/ he says. Balfour There was no insulation beyond paperarea was alerted that something was and shiplap, and no indoor “I expected we plumbing. Wooden beds laybear at eitheramiss. end of wouldbunk have the “I woke up and I heard the house with a kitchen in the middle. come upstairs at some rustling outside,� They used a wood stove for cooking and any point because said the woman who heating. asked not to be named. the is there “Ricekitchen was rationed and we made green thought it “I originally right? There’s a says. “We tea from alfalfa leaves,� he had a garden and also arden was raccoons and wasn’t full fridge, a pantry, bought vegetables from the Douks going to get up. But I who came horse-driven e in horse driven it smells really hobors decided to look out my wagons. � delicious.� window and a few minTagami, nowhe85,was wasinborn utes later, my at North Shore Homeowner Genoa Bay on Vancouver Island house. I’ve never been so andscared. raised�at Paldi, a sawmill community neargarage Duncan. The bear entered the home through the andHe doorway into the basement. had four brothers and two “It all happened very quickly.sisters. I calledTheir downstairs think- a father Jirosaku, ing it was my husband getting ready forwas work. ButinI a fall millwright, injured realized it was the bear inside my pushed andhouse. unableHe tohad work, so the sons on the bottom of the door, basically bent the so began logging as door teenagers. it popped off the hinge. He was inside the house going through the garbage,� she told the Star. Story continues to ‘Tagami’ on Page 3 Story continues to ‘Bear’s fate’ on Page 11
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ABOVE —Even before World War II, Japanese Canadians like Yosh Tagami were ďŹ ngerprinted and photographed for identity cards when they turned 16. RIGHT — Thousands of internees were sent to Slocan City where they enBob Hall photo dured primitive living conditions. The Man Waiting sculpture was assembled in the amenity area on the south side of Baker Street on (Tak Toyota Tuesday morning by photo) Kaslo artist Sergio Raffo. For more on the downtown sculptures see Page 14.
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