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Early Japanese Canadian Pioneers Row Boat 500 Miles North To The Skeena
Yoshida of Hamilton.
I Ka, the birth date of Buddha.
(ver through 12” inch pipes, two hard at work. Yoshizawa count­
It was the early morning of [ To the west, Stanley Park was newspapers, a telephone service ed. four ships docked at Hasti­
j “Canada; Doho Hatten ’ Taikari Friday, April 8, 1890. Standing hazy in the morning mist. Over with one hundred thirteen sub- ngs Mill, ships -with tall masts ■
by Jinshiro Nakayama ; Contains in the boat which he and Aika- ; a year ago the Governor-Gene- scribers a sewage system, a tra- to carry the .sails. On some days
■Wny articles .about - early Japa­ wa had built, Yasukichi Yoshi- ral ■ had dedicated the ''true-cov- ..in service with Eastern Canada. there were more than
forty
nese immigrant life. One story, zawa squinted at the morning ered penninsula as a park for
There was no trace of
the ships waiting to be loaded. The
?Ttopo gyogyo no kaitakushi wa sun over the Second Narrows of the use of the city’s
people. great fire of June 13, 1886, whi­ Japanese were worked hard to
^dare desu ka”, describes the ar­ Burrard inlet. It was a friendly Between the park and hustings ch had destroyed the
city in keep the lumber flowing.
rival of the first Japanese in spring sun which
signalled a Mill, where Yoshizawa had work­ ■twenty minutes. It had
been / The fire had literally explod­
Sie salmon fishing grounds of good day ahead. Yoshizawa had ed since arriving in Canada four started by careless tending of
ed on that hot June day. The
^Skeena River -in northern British ( selected April 8 ' because it was years ago, Vancouver was slo­ small fires used to clear
the new-born
city Vancouver, just
^Columbia. The following article the
*’ . 'birthdate
’ ’
_“ Shinran
~.l____ Shen
C.— ­ wly stirring to start another day brush and branches of giant Doof
three months old was burnt to
•jis based on this account.. I am in. He thought, what, better day as the boom town of the Ca- uglas firs,, hemlocks and
ced- the ground: Yoshizawa had arriijgrateful for the translation as- to start the trip northward to nadian west. Vancouver, in 1890,. ars filled to feed the busy sons ved five
months after the fire
distance given
and Mrs.
they
MiBuuice
gavrai by
us, Mr.
mil. wiiu
mis. the
me Skeena
uMeiia. of
vx which
which
uney had
nau had
nau eiecniciiy,
even according to what he' had heard
electricity, street cars, wa- oi
of Hastings Mill where
=Sato of Vancouver and Mr. Tom heard so_ much than Uziko Yo-1 ter pumped from Capilanb Ri- now a hundred Japanese were from the Japanese, the Nipponjins had conducted themselves
well. The road to Hastings Mill,
8
where the Japanese worked and
I
n
lived,
was one of the four poss­
8
ible escape routes.
The Japanese had given every help to' the hakujins’ which
scrambled to escape the holoca­
ust and they had' been warmly
commended by the mill manager.
R.H. Alexander.
Yoshizawa waited
patiently
TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1975
Vol. XXXIX —- 1
Toronto, Ont.
for the others ito say goodbye
to the few Japanese who had
come down to Hastings Beach.
Shiga Aikawa, his partner, was
LateForHolidaY Issue
a good man with the ability to
work easily with others.
The
others were Kawanuwa from Ko­
chi, Masuda from Echizen and
Kichi from Echigo.
M

By

ROY ITO

The Hew Canadian
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin

Late For Holiday Issue

Japan’s 1974 Traffic Deaths
Go Over 10,000 Mark,
Reports Natl Police Agency

Bicycles

They all got into the- boat.
end worked hard too, but was Yoshizawa sat in the stern, Yo­
never successful > materially, and shizawa sat at the front. Masu­
A few weeks ago for my son’s
when the evacuation came
he da and Kawamura grasped the
13th birthday, he got a new bi­
and his family were shipped off oars and pushed the boat away
cycle with a 27 inch wheel, tento the beet fields of southern from the beach. The final good­
y TOKYO. — This year Japan | toxicated young man.
speed, cotterless crank, . butted
He was
fortunate to byes were said in Japanese fa­
a traffic death toll topped the 10,The man, Kazuo-Hirooka, 23, tube frame etc., etc., which cost Alberta'.
..
....
v
x
t
1

;
see
nis
children
grow
up,'marry, shion.'
i‘; 00O1-mark on November 22 — drove off but was A arrested two about $160.00. I realize that in...
,
,
.

settle
down
and
prosper.
' '
’ “Yoku y.atte kure, .Do a good
y the 326th day of the year and 75 hours later.
flation and all. that:sort xf thing
Just
about
,the
time
of
the
days later than in last year, the
has
taken
place
but
when
I
was
job

According to the recent agen­
$ national Police Agency , said re- cy’s tabulation, Saitama Prefec­ a 13 year, old .kid. back on -the evacuation my- brother - turned ■ .“Genki de : ne. .
Keep your| cently.
ture produced the most traffic chicken farm in B.C. I was glad 13 and mother bought him a new selves well”
The agency’s tabulation show- fatalities (455) followed by O- that I had my father’s old bike
bicycle which cost about $40.00,
Masuda and Kawanura
had
| ed that the toll was 23.6 per saka (450.) , Hokkaido ’(437) and to' ride even though if was too
a
very large sum. in those days
| cent lower than last year’s co- Chiba (419). .
big for me and I had to peddle
difficulty with-' the oars, the wa­
which meant quite a - financial ter splashing on
8 rrespodending figure for Nov. 22.
Yoshizawa’s
The least deaths (60)
were it by sticking my foot ‘ under
| It predicted the* yearly decline
the
bar
and
could
not
sit
on
the
sacrifice. When the order
for: face .and arm. It was apparent
recorded by Tottori Piefecture,
| of highway • death counts would
middle of the evacuation came my brother
followed by Saga. (78) and Shi­ seat. l£ was in the
the they were not competent with
| set a record this year with the
the

depression
when
I
was ten
mane and Tokushima (79).
took his bicycle; .with-him to the the oars. - Yoshizawa was -surpri­
| toll to be held to about ll,20<)
that my father died. There was
. Among - the cities with popu­
bareily enough . money for food, beet' fields. I chose not 'to go sed." Japanese not able to row!
about the. same' as in 1962.
lations of over 100,000, Yama­
we couldn’t even consider buying and remained to take: my chan­ “Kichi, Aikawa, take the oars,”
B; The agency said the decline —
| now in fourth straight year —, guchi registered the highest fa­ a bycicle and T was very happy ces on getting out on my own
he requested Kichi looked at- him
I reflectied its continued
efforts tality rate of 27.5 per 100,000 to be able to fix up. my ^father’s or being sent to some Godforsa­
residents. It was
followed by
apologetically; Aikawa shook his
old bike and ride it underbar. I
for traffic control. The decline
Ichihara (Chiba Prefecture) and '. went everywhere riding it under­ ken place like Schrieber, Onta­ head. Yoshizawa was momenta- ■
j was particularly
noticeable in
Joetsu
(Niigata- /Prefecture), bar. One time ’with -a couple of rio. Fortunately I
received 'a rily shaken.. The plan was to row
large metropolitan areas
such
both : with 18.2, . and ' Kumagaya older boys from school we- biked B.C. Security Commission permit
as Tokyo, Yokohama- and Nagofive hundred miles to the -Ske- 5
(Saitama Prefecture) with 17.‘2 to the' airport near Vancouver. to leave the coast and ,go east
I ya, where there'were more int­
ena.
deaths per 100,000 residents.
When I returned late that night to a small resort town of St.
ensive investments in traffic saThe: Japanese were
arriving
The safest cities in this re­ I found that my mother and ne­
fety equipment.
Agathe in the
Laurentians. I steadily in New. Westminister,'
spect
were
Higashimurayama
ighbours were frantically sear­
A decline in car- driving due
still have that permit as a sou­ Victoria and Vancouver. : They
to higher gasoline prices was and Musashino, both in Tokyo, ching for me. When I got older
cited'as'a secondary 'reason for Neither city recorded any hig- I uspd to peddle into New West­ venir. In order to ’get the per­ could not all fish in the Fraser
hway deaths.
minister to the library, but be­ mit I even had to get permission or^wqrk in Hastings: Mill; new
; fewer deaths.
Pedestrian deaths
accounted cause- we lived' outside the: city from the Mayor of the town., jobs 'were needed. And as they
This year’s 10,000th' traffic
for
35.2
pfer
cent of the, total. I had to pay for m'y .library For $25.00 a month, I was the were, going, north to seek work
j death occurred at -about; 1:20
.on the Skeena.
North to the
| a.m. on a* street in Nara when When combined with those of cards. I paid for four cards so
chief
cook
and
bottle
washer,
Skeena
bn
a
rowboat.
It appe­
I a 57-y-ear-old man; was hit by, bicyclists, they account for abo- that I could take out 12 books
laundry
boy,
gardener,
maid,
aled
to
Yoshizawa

s
:
spirit
of'
at a time and thus save making
a speeding car driven by "an in-1 ut half of the toll.
adventure.
But
he
was
the
only
:
painter,
frequent long trips to get new house-boy, handyman,
one,
who.
could
row!
books. ■
electrician, nurse and cbmpanii
Yoshizawa exchanged places .
When my'father was. trying oh to the former, comptroller of with Masuda and started. to row.
Late For Holiday Issue
to get the chicken farm going the city of Montreal or some­ He was exasperated with him­
he used to work at the saw mill. thing who was in retirement wi­ self.- It was raining.
But as
He and his' friend who came to th a bad -heart. It was obvious Hastings Beach became further '
Canada, at the same time to seek
that the family? had enough poli­ in the distance'and Stanley Park
'
their
fortune used to ride off to
.
.
I
bleis
my.
eyes,
through
The Rev. Hiram H.’ Kano
tical clout' to induce the Mayor drew, nearer,' his high spirits
which I see God’s perfect Uni­ work at. 5 AM. After he got ho­
took over. The tide was . with
Text: “Jesus said; I am the verse. I bless my .inner vision me at night be would .clear the to give permission. ,
.
. V them. They were -on thrin .way; Light of world: he: that follpw- through which I 'see , God. I land, 'build the chicken, houses,
I arrived there in early May
He:.pointed the boat into the •
eth me shall not walk in dark­ bless my ears by which I* hear etc. till midnight. ~He worked and
1942. During the -summer my Gulf of Georgia. The others to­
ness, butt shall have the light the voice of God.
worked, never took time off for employer had two heart attacks, ok; their turns at the oars, aw­
of life." (John 8:12)
Christmas is the real joy of ^ frivolities, except occasion- but' my►presence for such emer­ kwardly at first but soon with
.. ..

. i ally he and his friend might ra- gencies ' did little' good from a rhythm and strength.' They* ate
Therefore if Christ had not our soivation.
/ ,
, ^ ^^ t<> work; A* the
come, there is no Christmas:
medical point of . view since we the rice, meat and vegetable lu­
Blessed is He that cometh rery eariyage of--48 he was de;
even today, we are wondering
were so isolated, and I had no nch. By nightfall they reached
in the darkness without.hope, in the name of the Lord. Ho- ad because anti-biotic drugs had
ssanah i-n the highest! :
• |not been discovered yet. His fri■Con. On P. 3
_
(Coht. on P, 2)
>
without life.'

"If Christmas Had Not Come"

By M. SHARK

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CANADIAN

(cont. from page 1.)

Tuesday, January 7, 1975 ^Tu

The New Canadian

a small bay on Howe
-Sound. the hakujins. Yoshizawa
said landed on the shore again. and they’re clothes were soiled and
A'member of Ethnic Press
Yoshizawa consulted his map, he until we can talk to the .haku; ’waited twelve hours.
worn.
Association of Ontario
thought they were at Hopkins jins, they will think of us ■ as
With great gusto, as
soon
They passed Hamii Cannery,
Second Class mall
Bay. They;.pitched their nine by strange . people with • strange as slack tide arrived,
shouting On the1 forty-second day
they
No. D-0366 '
tw'elve tent,- ate more of ; their customs. We have to learn.. En- “Yoisho, Yoisho. . .’ four
of reached . a . point which Yoshiza­
lunch washed down with green giish and if we are
going to them working at the oars, they wa said was Point LaTrnbert in
' PUBLISHED ON EVERT TUESDAY
AND FBIDAY
• tea/', and went '.to sleep.
work in the north we must learn moved through the two-mile cha­ the 'Skeena River area. As Yo­
It was'Yoshizawa who
first to speak the Indian
language. nnel. They rowed hard for anot­ shizawa looked across the cold
!. UMEZUKI Publisher
, woke up. He was stiff
from Yoshizawa became one of
the her fifteen miles and
landed waters of the river - mouth, he
K. C. TSUMURA
sleeping on. the. hard sand and few Japanese who could
con­ their boat in a small cave which- experienced a tremendous" feel­
English Section Editor
felt damp.: He awoke the .others verse with the native people nf Yoshizawa said was Knox Bay. ing he had when he climbed to
KEN MORi
and they were out to view the the North-West;
They were, exhausted by. their the top of Mount Fuji.
Japanese Section Editor
still green waters of Howe So­
They continued their - rowing
The'sky cleared, the rain sto­ efforts and decision was made
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und'. ringed with ■ snow-capped pped and the sun came out. .They to spend four days, at
Knox in -search of -a settlement. Faint
mountains. Lush, timber .growth dried their tent, boat and clot­ Bay and. enjoy the pleasure of sounds of construction’ could be
$9.00 for Six Months
covered the mountainside to the hing. They stretched their cram­ being in one place. One day Ma­ -heal’d. Yoshizawa pointed. and
$14.00 for a Year
waters edge." A fish jumped. It ped limbs,. They started once a- suda and Kichi came
rowing they headed for a point of land.
,1
was . beautiful, country in so­ .gain to row. They ' landed on furiously to the shore. . They They were coming - to the; end
479 QUEEN ST. WEST
me ways ■ like the beauty spots the northern part of Texada Is­ had spotted -a giant octopus clin­ of the long trip.
- Toronto, Ont. M5V-2A9
of Japan^ they thought but on a land. .
They found about one hundred
ging to a rock at the bottom of
366-5005
much bigger
scale
giant
Indians,
Masuda cooked potatoes
and the bay. The five scrambled in­ men, Occidental and
I
trees, deep • inlets, huge mount­ some of the biord meat. . They to the boat and moved to the hammering and sawing. YoshiI1
ains which rolled on and on into drank water from -a spring. Ka­ spot where the octopus could be zawa went up to the foreman
• the distance.
wamura belched with satisfacti- clearly seen. They tried casting who looked at the Japanees with
I ■
They congratulated each other on. “Oh for miso-shim”,. he re­ a hooked line. After a number interest.
with smiles. • They ’had - safely marked.
*
“Are you Chinese?” he asked
of attempts they succeeded in
-started their journey. They bre­
Help Wanted
“Japanese,” answered
Yoshi.Yoshizawa said,. “There’s an hooking on to one of .the tent­
wed-green tea and ate more of old saying. . . where there’s , a acles and managed to pull the zawa, “from Vancouver”. *
WANTED a fully qualified ma-g^
their lunch; it would last them spring you can find gold. Let’s beast to the boat. For five days
The foreman and the others' ster chef for a Teppanyaki sty-t|i—
for the day. They steadily row­ look around.”
they dined on the tako, a great had never seen a Japanese be­ le restaurant in one of -the lar-h
ed, the weather was ideal, and
fore. When they saiw the small ger Canadian cities. Please re-H
They searched around and fo­ delicacy in Japan.
the water calm.

for ply to Box 10, The New Cana| S1
und three blackened holes
left
They moved north again thro­ boat which carried "them
By evening they arrived near
;
O’
hy dynamite explosions. Others ugh Johnstone Strait skirting the forty-two days they were imp­ dian.
an Indian .village which Yoshi­
j had been there prospecting’ for wooded shores of Vancouver Is­ ressed.
zawa thought.
was •
Sechelt.
mineral. Kichi
gave a shout. land. As they neared the Indian
-Yoshizawa explained that they suda, Denkichi Matsumoto, Tora-^
They landed on a small island. ;
They found him
examining a village of Alert Bay, dense fog wanted to be fishermen; that goro . Inouye, Kazo ' Sawamura,ii
- Their lunch was all gone. For piece of rock an which -they co­ enveloped them in a -swirling Japanese were good fishermen.
provisions they had brought four uld see a . shiny metal, parts of misty cloud. Yoshizawa directed The foreman stated that they Yoshiburo Okuyama.
When Aikawa returned withff
bags of flour, a bag- of potato­ which were blue and' rust-colo­ Kichi and Masuda to row for were building a
new-Cannery
'
large!
es, a small quantity of baking ured. Aikawa identified it as co- the shore. Suddenly three ■ shots to be called North Pacific. Sal­ the seven, they built a
cabin,for the winter. For -then
‘ powder and a . bottle of shoyu, pper.
.

of gunfire were heard.'The two mon fishing would, not begin for first time since • leaving VaneoJ
they counted on fish and game
After consulting his map, Yo- immediately stopped rowing. All several months’ but he- offered uver, Yoshizawa andx Aikawa‘S
to provide for their needs.
shizawa decided to cross1
the ’that could be heard
was the the men jobs ofs cutting firewood
were living in a tent.
q
. Masuda gathered wood, made Strait of Georgia to the
.
east dripping of the water from the for $1.50 a cord.
a fire and started to heat some side of Vancouver Island, Snow- lifted oars.
' In the spring, Yoshizawa and^
■ \They accepted the work alth­
flat stones. Kichi made a battec capped mountains on the island
Aikawa said, “That’s only a ough they only had one Japa­ Aikawa, on a boat to Port Essing . ■
, from the flour and
placed a beckoned' them as they
rowed signal from another boat. They nese saw and one axe. Their li­ gton, met the manager of Inver-^ "'
portion 'oh the heated -stones. steadily hour after hour. They continued their rowing and lan­
ving conditions were crude and ness Cannery, the first plant top---They eagerly watched the batter entered a. narrow strait, marked ded. When the fog lifted they
build on the .Skeena Rivei',^“
uncomfortable. They still ' lived be
who
invited the
Japanese to|
bubble and cook. in the map as Discovery Passa'- saw an Indian village close by. in the tent. Their food was pla­
A sudden breeze blew the a- ge, which led to another narrow As the Japanese approached they
in and monotonous. After three work for him. Aikawa; Yoshiza-H
wa, Matsumoto and Sakai agreed!
shes- on to the batter. It was: not corridor half a mile wide.
could see a number of Indians weeks they had cut only eleto
cut wood in winter and fishl •
appetizing but: it had to •be’ their
Here the water raced against working on a canoe.. Halibuts ven cords, barely enough to buy
supper. for that night.
in
the
summer at
Inverness.!the boat, at a tremendous speed. were drying on a. rack. Yoshiza- food.' It was discouraging.
When
the
fishing
season
approa-|
On the ■ third day the sea be- No. matter how-hard .they rowed wa suggested, .‘‘Let’s try to get
In the evening as. they
sat ched, the manager asked Yoshi-|
.came rough tossing the boat wil­ they could not make any head­ Halibiit. We have no
money around the fire Murakami menzawa. if he could obtain' moreB
dly and water started to come way ; and . finally they landed on but we can exchange.”
tinned that he had heard . that
Japanese. Once- again - Aikawas : ■
over >the. sides. ’ Yoshizawa ■ and .the beach. They were in Seymo­
Aikawa offered three” cigare^ there had been a great' fire in went / to. Victoria ■ and returned^ z
• Aikawa -. were the only ones e- ur Narrows where the * waters ttes and pointed to. the; drying
Seattle and there was plenty of with .12 men which included Sa-| • ■
: quipped with rubber boots. They speed- up to fifteen knots/and a fish and the exchange was made.
work available. He wanted- to go dakichi Kurihara,- Umekichi Yo-|
sought shelter on another ■small hidden; rock/creates
additional Kawamura : had an
attractive back south and so did Kichi and shida, Kiyomoto KSneko/ Kinji.^
island. ' Aikawa took . the shot- hazards to boats. - Yoshizawa' had
shoe buckle which he
brought Masuda. -There was no money
gun and spent half a day shoot- heard; that a ship called - the out. The Indians were not intero Watanabe and his brother.
for boat fare. Reluctantly Yo­
ing birds which provided an a- “Grappler” had . caught fire. at ■ rested. -Kichi offered a
bar of shizawa -agreed to; sell the shot- ' Aikawa went to, Japan in§
ppetizing meal.,
the. entrance to the ■ Narrows ■ soap and this resulted in five guri to a Chinese!-who gave them 1894 and returned with Ryuki-| ’
. . At: Pen der Hai bo ur it’s tarred seven years before and about more fish.
thirty dollars. It was with mix­ chi Enomoto, Torahaehiro Nag-^-K
to rain a steady downpour that seventy-five ' people had
died, ' • The Japanese decided to an- ed feelings the three" left to ma­ nobu, Sannosuke Ennyu, and R°j II
kutaro Ide. By. that time some 80j ,U
continued for four days. Only most of them Chinesb going to cho,r and sleep on the boat. They ke the return trip.
Yoshizawa and Aikawa had ra­ work in the canneries. How we­ had heard that, the- .Indians in
fishing on; the! ■
When the fishing season beg­ Japanese were
■ | ■
incoats and rainhats. The five re ■ they going to get
through this . region were. not veiy fri­ an,. Yoshizawa partnered with a Skeena River.
Japanese huddled under the ‘ can­ these waters? .
endly and indulged in some te­ hakujin and Aikawa
with an
vas-tent which was soon leaking.
A white man came’ up: to the rrifying customs. In the , morn­ Indian. On a Columbia boat, eq­
The’ water that had begun to a- channel , in a row boat. He was ing, they found to their ^conster­ uipped with sails, oars, a tent,
pear in the tent floor became a tall, beared, ’ and . had tremendo- nation, that the anchor had dra­ and a small stove. They rowed
steady, stream., In : desperation .us< .hands which fascinated .the gged during the night and the on to the fishing grounds. They
they. got back . into the boat and Japanese. Tomorrow, he
told boat was bn the beach. .Kawa­ cast, their 200-fathom drift -net
covered it with the tent., using ■them, at 5 o’clock in the morn­ mura shouted and pointed to lar­ in the nearby waters of the river
an oar as a pole. They were wet, ing the tide will come to a stop ge tracks around the boat. Wol­ mouth. They hauled their nets
cold, hungry, and cramped;/The. and you will be able to get thro­ ves had/been around during the and caught the giant spring and
rain; continued? ..They were in ugh. He mentioned that - there night. Yoshizawa said that only the . graceful’ sockeye. When the
the wettest part of British Col­ was a. house nearby'where pro­ the lantern ' burning all
night- waters were rough they rowed
umbia where rainfall can-avera- visions - could be purchased. The had saved them from a lot of to shore for the weather to chan­
$1000 WEEKLY DRAW
ge ’ seventy-five inches a . year; Japanese searched their pockets grief.

' <
ge. The collector boats ; visited
DEC. 18th WINNER
They tried fishing through the and althbgether they had sixty,
On the twenty-second day af­ them regularly to carry the fishMR. RICHARD FUJIKI
opening in the canvas < and: cou- cents and they bought sugar and ter leaving Vancouver (they re­ back to the cannery. . They we­
WEST HILL, ONT.
. ■ •
ght a small • cod.- Aikawa shot: a salt.
ached Smith Inlet.
Yoshizawa re the first- Japanese to work
NQ. 331
duck.-Somehow they managed a : Next morning the,white man had' optimistically ' estimated tw- on the' Skeena River.
DEC. 23rd WINNER
fire and, cooked the fish and the wpke them up at half,,;past four... enty days to reach the Skeena.
In the fall .when the. sockeye
bird.
'
,
MRS. NORMA JONES
It was still dark.-The Japanese Their provisions-were nearly £1- and the cohoe salmon rims wereDOWNSVIEW, ONT.
. The m'en talked abouC their yvere most, grateful. The-tent was - nished; They were’only half way -finished, Yoshizawa -.and Aikawa '
NO. 72
lives jn • Ja^an and their plans packed away, .breakfast, eaten.’to theirjdestination.’'
went to work in a - sawmill at
for the future. "They were'’ all They got into the boat, and start-| Day . after day 'they pulled on
Georgetown -near Port Simpson.'
DEC. 30th WINNER
young meh seeking a place in a ed to row but within
a few mi- the oars. They kept to the shelt- The owner, impressed with the
,
MR. G. KOBAYASHI
new country. Eventually ’they nutes tne wateris, in. the narrows ered. waters between the Island
work of the Japanese, asked if-’
DON MILLS, ONT.
hoped- for a bride from Japan surfed to; move. and. they were' and the mainland. .They ; landed
Yoshizawa 'could-get more Ja­
NO. 752
and;a home.: Canada was .the helpless once again. - Slack tide, and slept. They fished1 and they
panese to work for him. Aika­
JAPANESE
CANADIAN
land of opportunity and it>was had lasted; only; thirty; minute
shot, birds. Some days they we- wa travelled to Victoria and .reCULTURAL
CENTRE
just a matter of -hard
work; The; white ;man ;had,.gone ahead.., re soaked' bv the rain
- 1
/a ■
, Other cruited seven /recently
arrived
123 WYNFORD DRIVE
They, wished ■ they could . speak
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Y. Glen Katsuyama

I medical skills. However I lear- brother came to Montreal.' He
ned to prepare
roast leg
of brought his bike with him but
BARRISTER & SOLICITOR
lamb, something that I had ne- they had to pay their own way
yer seen or eaten until this po- to leave the beet fields. The bi­
37 MAIN ST. N.
int. I also saw a number of pe- ke was of litle use in the city
Authentic Oriental Gifts
ople in the upper levels of hi- and soon it was sold for a few
MARKHAM, ONTARIO :
gh
finance and society who ow­ dollars which was used to buy
Kimonos & Accessories
ned
elaborate estates and who groceries.
PHONE (41$) 294-5230
- Noritake China
were neighbours. I also meet an
When I left B.C. I abandoned
Residence 294-5950
interesting
girl
named
Cecily.
my
father’s old bike,' I
don’t
463 Eglinton Ave.W.
She was a tutor for my employ­ know whatever happened to it.
•phone 489-8611
er’s married daughter’s children. I did not see it on the list of
She was graduate in math and inventoried items that
listed
philosophy
from the University for the farm when it was sold
a ■
of London and was doing gra­ without our knowledge or con­
1 Buy & Sell — Your Home
duate work at McGill. She stay­ sent for a few measily dollars.
ed
■ with the daughter’s • family To-day a shopping' center and
1
Through
in the cottage across1 the huge other, commercial business stand
private lake on the estate for on that chicken farm and it is
a part of summer. During the worth many hundreds of thouBeginners' Course
off hours we used to wander a- sands of dollars.
Representing
1
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round about ‘the estate,
and
Well the full cycle has • been
Robt. Owen,
FOR INFORMATION CALL
from one of the high “hills” on made.. For the past few years
Realtor
the place we could see several I have returned to .riding a bi­
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252-1955 621-7232 Toronto
si
other large lakes. When their cycle again. As a university pro­
i .2685 Eglinton Ave. East
356-5758 (Niagara Falls
stay was over my
employer's fessor I can ride to work on my
Phone 266-4501 - Res. 261-2581
son came in from New York and
second hand bike for which I
brought with him a girl friend ’ paid $17.00 and still not compwho was rich, pretty, a product ( romise my dignity. ■ As a conc, of private schools and 'a Pari- ession to my age I have three
TORONTO JAPANESE GOSPEL CHURCH
. sian education with liberal ideas. * speeds, but
then ’ bicycling is
St. John's Presbyterian, Broadview at Simpson Ave.
She
used
to
get
up
early
and
supposed
to
promote
good heSERVICES:.
,
Sunday: Sunday Schoo! and Worship Services 2:00 P.M.
go swiming in the nude although alth, save gasoline and stop po. <
Tuesday: Prayer and Study Fellowship 8:00 P.M.
I newer saw her since I was told Hution. I sometimes wish we weFriday: Young Peoples Christian Fellowship 8:00 P.M.
not to go to near the lake at re not living- in such an affluPhoue Contact: Mr. S. Yokota 425-6128, Mr. H. Yoshida 461-1686.
that hour. I was a naive country ^t society for my children can
boy and my employer’s wife, to' never have the opportunity " to
ptrotect my innocence, even re­ look back at the “good old days'
moved some books which were or were.they?
TORONTO BUDDHIST CHURCH
were in'the room I was to occu­
SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1975
py, saying that they' were bro­
SSK
ught by .some of her husband’s
10:30 A.M. Sunday School
For Best Results
business friends.'One of the 'bo­
11:00 A.M. Morning Service
oks I remember was Studs Lo- Use New Canadian Ad;
2:00 P.M. Japanese Service
nigan Eventually I read it, but
918 Bathurst St.
J«lephone: 534-4302
just recently my wife , had to re­
ad it for a book on Illinois fic­
tion that she is writing
as a
co-author.

Mits Kuroda

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few times. Eventually I named
my first daughter Cecily.
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