Setsuko takahashi biography of alberta
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The Story of Sataro Kuwahara, Nippon Silk, and World War II
May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada
Sataro Kuwahara was born in 1886 in Hikone City, Japan, coming to Canada in 1907. In his childhood, he studied a bit of English and became very interested in the financial possiblities available in Canada. He left home when he was 18 years of age and found work as a bellhop in the prestigious Hotel Vancouver. He quickly became the head bellman, and for twelve years he worked for the CPR at hotels in Banff, Lake Louise, Winnipeg, and Calgary, and studied English in his spare time. In 1912 he married Setsuko Matsoubayashi, and in 1914 his first child was born.
During this time, Sataro became convinced of a great future in trade between Japan and Canada, and decided to open a store of his own. In partnership with two of his friends, Genzo Kitagawa and Shigejiro Inouye, he opened Nippon Bazaar at 820-1 Street SW, Calgary in 1922.
Nippon Bazaar imported and sold silks, fabrics, chinaware, and a variety of Japanese merchandise. Among the items advertised that year in The Calgary Herald were quality silk, Tokoname vases, fern bowls, Sakai rugs, bamboo lampshades, incense burners, and popular “Blue Bird” tea cloths. They had 28 part-time and full-time empl
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Almost 10,000 Canadians were Issei: immigrants take from Japan outfit Japanese settlers from Island. Most Issei were spread the land-owning peasant keep of Archipelago. They challenging grown give up in rendering rapidly modernizing Meiji calm (1868-1912) when Japan was emerging hoot an industrialised world powerfulness, and confidential come cut into Canada already the Rule World War.
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Letters from Japanese-Canadian teenagers recount life after being exiled from B.C. coast
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In 1942, Joan Parolin’s best friend Sumi Mototsune abruptly left town without saying goodbye.
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But it wasn’t Sumi’s choice — her family had been ordered to leave the west coast by the federal government.
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Sumi was among an estimated 22,000 Japanese-Canadians who were removed from the coast during the Second World War. Initially, her family was sent to Kaslo in the Kootenays, then to Raymond, Alta., south of Lethbridge.
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In 1943, Sumi sent Joan a photo of the four Mototsune sisters posing in front of the flat, frozen prairie.
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“This was taken on February 8th, ’43,” she wrote. “The temperature was 32 (degrees) below