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PASSING OF MY FATHER - FIRST FUNERAL IN SLOCAN
When we were in internment camps we were not allowed to leave the confides. I do know the men who were working on road camps near...

HARUYE
Dec 12, 20242 min read
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GREENWOOD - NIKKEI LEGACY PARK
On the way back from Christina Lake, we stopped off at the Nikkei Park in Greenwood BC. By luck, Chuck Tasaka was working on the park...
MATT
Sep 12, 20241 min read
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MAGNA BAY
This is us on the final day in Magna Bay, sitting by the wharf of Shuswap Lake. Kay, Noriko, Jane, me and May Uyeda 1953 and 1954 We...

HARUYE
Jul 8, 20242 min read
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DR. ROBINSON - A RENAISSANCE MAN
Dr. STUART, COOPER ROBINSON Dr. Stuart Cooper Robinson was born in 1921 and sadly passed in 2011 at 90 years of age. Three generations...

HARUYE
Jul 3, 20242 min read
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INTERNMENT LIVING
Before the internment, we lived in Port Hammond (Maple Ridge) BC and in 1942 we were forcibly removed to Hastings Park, then to tent city...

HARUYE
Jun 7, 20241 min read
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UDON FOR SALE
On the weekends, mother made udon noodles.  Every Saturday she was up at 600am to prepare the dough. My olderr sister Yoko was assigned...

HARUYE
Jun 7, 20241 min read
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VALENTINES DAY 1947
Photo: Yoshiye, Haruye and Sumi (Valentines Grade 3 concert, 1947) It was spring 1947 and the school had a Valentine’s concert. Our...

HARUYE
Jun 7, 20241 min read
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HUCKLEBERRIES
This is in 1950. I was grade 6, 12 yrs old …… Lucy, my friend lived in downtown New Denver (Nelson ranch area). I was visiting her...

HARUYE
Jun 5, 20241 min read
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MIXED GRADES
Photo: New Denver. BC. This is my grade 4/5 class photo. Mrs. Johnson is my first hakujin teacher (1948 — 1949). Notice that the...

HARUYE
Jun 3, 20242 min read
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FOOD POISONING = FIRST TASTE OF APPLE JUICE
I remember a night in the summer of 1946 in Bay Farm, I was 8 years old, my sister Vickie was 7 and my older sister Kay was our baby...

HARUYE
Mar 21, 20242 min read
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