The New Canadian — December 31, 1985

The New Canadian
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin

I VOL. 49 — NO. 97

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1985

Political parties seek minority support...

Nippon
Maru to
centrepiece
Expo ’86
Tall Ships
VANCOUVER. - From July,
25 to 28, visitors to the 1986
World Exposition will see a
spectacular showcase of the
sea as Tall Ships join forma­
tion with tugboats, barges,
kayaks and canoes among
others for an unsurpassed
tribute to sea-going vessels
of the world.
Japan's Tall Ship, the Nip­
pon Maru, will be the centre­
piece for a continuous parade
of sail that includes otherTall
Ships, steam and humanpowered craft along the False
Creek shoreline. Hundreds of
ships, tugs, yachts, ferry and
fishing boats as well as
canoes, windsurfers and ka­
yaks will dock at False Creek
and at the Canadian Pavilion
on Burrard Inlet for public
viewing.
“British Columbians have
always had a natural affinity
with the waters of the world.
‘Ships of the World’ will be a
fitting tribute of those vessels
on which we rely for our live­
lihood and which also take
up many of our recreation
hours,” said Claude Rich­
mond, minister of Tourism/
EXPO 86.

Toho Theatre's
Medea at Van.
Expo 86 festival
VANCOUVER, B.C. — Au­
diences will celebrate the
cultural diversity of more
than 30 nations in the spec­
tacular Royal Bank/EXPO 86
World Festival running con­
currently with the 1986 World
Exposition.
One of them is Japan's
Toho Theatre production of
Medea, which combines the
majesty of ancient Kabuki
and contemporary theatrical
trends in Euripides' story of
revenge and redemption.
Medea takes place at the
Queen Elizabeth Playhouse,
September 15-20, 1986.

TORONTO, ONT

Japanese Canadians
needed for active
participation in
Canadian politics

Message from the Prime Minister
On behalf of Mila and the children, I am happy to
offer my warmest greetings for this holiday season to
the readers and staff of The New Canadian.
The colourful diversity of celebrations andfestivals
being held across Canada in these coming weeks brings
into clearfocus the multicultural uniqueness of our na­
tion. The freedom to observe traditional ethnic and
religious practices is a fundamental fact of Canadian
life, and I hope that your own celebrations will be ex­
citing and joyful.
May I extend to you my very best wishes for a joy­
ous holiday season with hopes that the coming year br­
ings peace, health and happiness to your families and
to your community.

OTTA WA, December, J985

Greenwood Midway
Reunion is slated on
Aug. 1,1986 in Vancouver
VANCOUVER. — A big event for Japanese Canadians in
1986 will be the Greenwood, Midway, Grand Forks, Christina
Lake Reunion set for August 1, 1986 in Vancouver.
The Reunion Committee reports that because space is
limited, all those interested should send their reservations
to: Mr. Tad Ikeda, 2215 Nanaimo Street, Vancouver, B.C.
V5N 5E1. Cost is $40. per person. Please include: name,
spouses maiden name, address, telephone number, number
of people, and whether a former resident of Greenwood, Mid­
way, Grand Forks or Christina Lake.
All registration should be mailed before February 15,1986.

By ROY ITO
Properly. accredited a re­
porter for The New Canadian,
I attended the Ontario Pro­
gressive Conservative Lea­
dership Convention held Nov­
ember 15 and 16 in Toronto's
shiny new Convention Hall. I
promised Ken Mori, publisher
of the paper, a report for the
Christmas issue.
My involvement with poli­
tics, since casting my first
vote as a soldier at the Brant­
ford infantry camp, has been
limited although I have voted
in every municipal, provincial,
and federal elections that
came my way. For Japanese
Canadians, it is almost a sa­
cred trust that we exercise
the franchise. When I make

Author Roy Ito
my mark on the ballot paper, I
can almost feel the spiritual
prescence of Japanese Cana­
dians who fought hard and
long to get this right for our
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Home for seniors

Year of JC 's
1986
biggest fund drive
for Momiji Complex
By MARY ASAZUMA
The Momiji Complex Fund
is indeed a dream that the
Issei had 9 years ago, when
the Momiji Health Care Soci­
ety received a whole-hearted
mandate to pursue and realize
this Issei dream. Over the 9
years, sad to say, many Issei
have passed on without seeing
their dream realized; and
now, it is time for the early
1900's and earlier vintage of
Nisei to pursue this dream —
a dream that requires the
assistance of all J.C. genera­
tions.
In my case, I had hoped
that my mother, Mrs. Kiyo
Toida, would have been for­
tunate enough to have experi­
enced companionship with
other Issei in her fading years.
But it was not to be, as it was
only 4 years since the man­
date and the M.H.C.S. was no-

where near even a Greenview
Lodge or a Castleview.
The only Course open to
my brother and myself was to
try for a Canadian nursing
home, or old people's home.
But the waiting list was long
and she passed away before
she could benefit from any
outside care, or even com­
panionship with other Issei.
All
institutionalized
seniors are lonely people,
particularly if they are
spouses who have lost their
other half, and it happens
even to the best of us!
In an institution which
could be alien to J.C. needs,
as in language, familiar cus­
toms and food, companion­
ship, the loneliness could be­
come intensified with other
similarly inclined compan-

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Happy New Year! Shin-nen Omedeto!
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Tuesday, December 31,1985

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Political Parties Seek Minority Support (Continued
There aren't too many black

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citizens living in Hamilton
West.
The political parties are
V
well aware of the changing
multicultural scene in Cana­
da and realize the political
strength of the minority
groups. In his farewell ad­
dress, Frank Miller who took
over as the Premier of the
Z
1
province and then ten mon­
ths later lost power after 42
years of Conservative govern­
ment had a difficult speech to
Ontario Progressive Conservative Leadership Convention make:
‘We ran a bad campaign lea­
near the main stage was re­ and East Indians. The dele­ ding up to May 2nd. I admit
served for us giving us a good gates were mainly middle that. I regret that. I take full
view of the convention floor. class white Canadians going responsibility for it.’
The studios for television and through the exercise of choo­
This was met by a dull si­
radio were located at the sing the next leader of oppo­ lence in the convention hall. I
ends of the huge hall. Behind sition and perhaps the next could have been a very emo­
the stage squatted the equip­ premier of Ontario. In the tional speech but it was deli­
ment trucks, heavy cables Conservative leadership con­ vered in a very unemotional
snaking all over the area. On vention held early in the year, way. Mr. Miller reminded me
the first floor was a large of the 1700 delegates 73.5 per of a school principal talking
room for the media equipped cent were Protestants and 65 to a student assembly. At the
with tables, approximately 20 per cent were supposed to be end, the party gave him the
typewriters, sixty phones and of European background.
customary standing applause
The Toronto Star had a and sent him off to nurse his
half a dozen television sets.
The daily newspapers had newspaper article with the political wounds. But por­
their own section in the room heading: “Visible minorities tions of this speech caught
while the Canadian Press had so coveted by Tories stay my full attention.
its own room. There was free mostly invisible.” The story
‘It has been obvious for a
coffee. In politics the media reported that a Mike Akai, 55, long time that our party has
plays an essential role and a lawyer and an undecided not worked as hard as effecdelegate for Scarborough tivelly as we might have in ap­
we were well looked after.
I visited the three campaign North, as stating that “feder­ pealing to young urbanites, to
headquarters (Larry Gross­ al Liberals have been ‘peddl­ women , and to those whose
man, Alan Pope, Dennis Tim­ ing the propaganda so long’ cultural and racial background
brel I) and read the literature (the Conservatives is a party are different from the majority.
given out in handsome fol­ for white Anglo-Saxon
‘I know it is popular to talk
ders. It was a jolt to realize Protestants) that minorities of such things. I intend to act.
It was a rainy day when I ar- that ail candidates were born are hesitant to join the I intend to criss cross this
rived at the Convention Cen­ after the Japanese evacua­ Tories.”
province with the message to
Norman Tam is right. A men and women of all back­
tre. It had rained steadily for tion. Why, I thought, Timbrell
two weeks, the wettest Nov­ was born while I was overseas. goo^ place for Nisei and San­ grounds and circumstanes
ember in Ontario's history. Mr. Grossman came by, shook sei to get involved in politics that our party needs them —
But inside the Convention my hand and said, “Glad to is at the iocal riding level. and they us?
Centre, brightly dressed sup­ see you here.” He is not a big Norman Tam comes from the
Dennis Timbrell who lost
man,
very
compact,
tidy,
effi
­
riding
which
sent
Larry
porters were marching behind
the leadership by only nine­
cient
looking
person,
a
law
­
Grossman to the Ontario leg­ teen votes on the second bal­
bands, singing their songs
(We're walkin' tall/We're yer by profession. He had the islature. Grossman is now the lot had this to say in as a part
walkin' tall/ So come join us intelligent look that gave the leader of the opposition and of his platform:
on Team Timbrell/' Cause you impression of a computer­ may become premier of Ont­
11 personally will ensure that
know we're walkin' tall) and like mind ticking away and he ario. You may be sure Mr. all government ministries are
flashing their signs. There reminded me of someone I Grossman is well aware of sensitive to the needs of our
was no doubt that a leader- know. His campaign litera- Norman Tam and what he re­ \cuitural communities. I will
ship convention was in pro­ ture has a quote: “You get the presents and if Norman Tam ensure that funds are distri­
gress. Registration of dele­ feeling his mind's working has something he wants Mr. buted equitably to cultural
Grossman to hear he will be communities in order to help
gates and media people was all the time.”
I met a Chinese Canadian listened to.
carried out very efficiently on
meet cultural needs. I will en­
delegate,
Norman
Tam,
ac
­
the second floor. The party
Getting elected in munici­ sure that the rights of citi­
companied
by
three
Chinese
had plenty of experience be­
pal, provincial, federal elec­ zenship are more than sterile
cause it was only a year pre­ Canadians who were alternate tions may be a very difficult words on a piece of paper in
viously they had gone delegates from his riding of task for Japanese Canadians. some dusty archive or court
through the same process, St. Andrew-St. Patrick, the By evacuation and dispersal, of law.
elected a new leader, and riding of Larry Grossman. the Japanese Canadian com­
tEach and every individual,
headed confidently into an Tam told me there was also a munity lost its political clout. no matter of what ethnic
election. They won a slim ma­ Japanese Canadian delegate Chinese Canadians have had background, religious affilia­
jority but could not survive from his riding and asked me some success but only in tion, national origin — must
the first vote of confidence. how many Japanese Canadian areas which have a large Chi­ have the same opportunity as
The Liberal party with the delegates would be at the nese population. Ying Hope everyone else.’
support fo the 25 NDP mem­ convention. Tam, who came was Toronto aiderman for six­
Each candidate had glossy
bers now form the govern­ to Canada from Hong Kong teen years but was defeated pamphlets showing himself
ten years ago, repeated a in the past November elec­ with groups of obviously non­
ment of Ontario.
My picture was taken and number of times during our tion. In the' same election, whites. Yes, Japanese Cana­
an identification tag was conversation, “We minorities two Chinese names were dians, they want you. The po­
hung around my neck similar have to get involved.”
among the successful candi­ litical parties are inviting you
Reports in the newspapers dates elected to the Toronto to take part in the political
to a dog tag. The elderly lady
volunteer told me that 700 indicated that considerable Board of Education. But, it process. The door is wide
media people were being re­ number of delegates were can be done. Lincoln Alexan­ open. We were at the bottom
gistered, an astonishing num­ from the so-called visible der, newly appointed Lieute­ of the political citizenship
ber. I later learnt that a con­ minority groups, but glancing nant-Governor of Ontario, ladder forty years ago beg­
siderable number of politi­ around the Convention Hall was a black M.P. for Hamilton ging to be recognized as first
cians and political analysts they were hard to find. I no­ West, a member of the Clark class Canadian citizens.
appearing on television were ticed one Chinese Canadian cabinet for the short time the We've come a long way but
registered as media. An area girl and a number of blacks Conservatives were in power. now the day has come for us

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and Canada Federation
Publisher & Japanese Editor
Kenzo Mori
English Editor
Kei Tsumura

group - the volunteers of the
First and Second World Wars,
Tomekichi Honma, Yasushi
Yamazaki, Buck Suzuki,
George Tanaka, Edward Ban­
no, Kunio Shimizu.
In a recent provincial elec­
tion I had an interesting ex­
perience. One of my friends
was running in my riding and
I was recruited to be a scruti­
neer and assigned to a poll­
ing station. I was sworn in.
My primary function was to
keep an eye on the balloting
process to insure all rules
were being followed. My sec­
ond function was to keep
track of voters who had indi­
cated support for my friend
and to phone my partner
every hour to let her know
which of these people had
not turned out. She then con­
tacted them, inquiring if trans­
portation was needed and
urged them to visit the poll­
ing station. This is known as
getting out the vote. When
these people arrived, I cross­
ed off their names on my list.
By the end of the day certain
names had become quite
familar. When the polls closed, I monitored, with scruti­
neers representing the other
candidates, the counting of
the ballots. My work finished
with phoning of the results to
our campaign headquarters.
Disappointingly, my friend
was second in the count at
my station.

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to move a little higher by ac­
tive political participation.
The convention had all the
expected hoopla — crowds
of supporters carrying ban­
ners, (they were mostly teen­
agers), marching, theme
songs, badges and invitations
to free lunches, free parties
and free drinks in the hospi­
tality suites located in three
hotels. It was like a high
school or university pep rally
but with more money involved.
The two leading candidates
were reported to have spent
three million dollars each.
The predictions were Gross­
man by a slight margin over
Timbrell followed by Pope
who was conceded no
chance at all and that was the
way it turned out.
I thought all the razz-matazz
a bit forced, the speeches
very boring. I found myself
dozing during the speech
making. The most interesting
part of the day was talking to
the Globe and Mail man sit­
ting behind me. I spotted a
number of political media
personalities; I was hoping to
see CBC newscaster Susan
Harada or perhaps CBC vicepresident Margaret Inouye
Lyons and I would interview
them for The New Canadian,
but no luck.
When I came home on Fri­
day night, the voting was to
begin Saturday afternoon, I
read in the papers all the ex­
citing things that were going
on on the convention floor.
Panellists on TV were making
all sorts of observations — a
ground swell in favour of Tim­
brell, unhappiness in the
Pope camp, confidence in the
Grossman staff, a coolness
to former Premier Davis for
leaving the party with the pro­
blem of Separate School fun­
ding, deals being made. I
didn' t see any of these things.
I saw many bored looking
people wandering around,
jumping and shouting now
and then. I suspect that the
media people work hard to
create situations that do not
exist. But there is no doubt
the announcing of the voting
results is an electrifying mo­
ment — and that is what the
convention is all about. Next
time, perhaps, I could go as a
voting delegate and feel
some of that excitement and
sample the hospitality suites.

Tuesday, December 31, 1985

Asazuma...

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ings to return to Japan, to live Canadian Senior Complex for
near their blood sisters and all JC's who are proud of
brothers, if possible, in order their roots, of their back­
that their Canadian offspr­ ground, of their memorials to
ings could obtain a much the Issei blood that courses
higher level of education than through the J.C. society.
Without this pride, these
they themselves possessed.
This complex dream is an memories, we are a dying
“On, a giri-gaishi” that every society that is rapidly becom­
Nisei owes to their parents' ing diluted by western influ­
lives in an alien land, more ences.
Our society is, today, los­
bearable. Many stories re­
main of these early abound­ ing the Japanese tongue, the
traditions, customs, and we
ing friendship relations.
Through their efforts, the are fast becoming Canadians
Issei gave the Nisei a better with “yellow skins,” who look
start to re-establish them­ Oriental but cannot commun­
selves after the traumatic ex­ icate with our more recently
perience of the Evacuation, arrived brother and sister Ja­
and concentration camps, panese — the Shin-ljushas.
The politics of race is in
and enabled the Nisei to pro­
vide a good, basic home at­ the tongue, customs, and tra­
mosphere Tor the Sansei to ditions, the spiritual belong­
ings. We, as J.C.'s, felt out­
develop into good citizens.
Let's salute the memory of raged when we learned that
these admirable Issei, rapidly the former Canadian Prime
disappearing from the J.C. Minister, Pierre Elliott Tru­
historical scenery, and the deau, on his visit to Japan, of­
early Nisei, who also are fast fered an apology.. . . to the
approaching the “golden Japanese Government for the
years” — and who lived and Evacuation! But we have not,
struggled through the sever­ as Canadians, heard an apo­
est acts of discrimination logy from Ottawa, despite the
perpetrated against Orientals passing of almost 40 years
by an admittedly Christian since the Evacuation. Why is
and democratic country, but this? Why was Trudeau's
who, nevertheless, came out apology to the Japanese
silently fighting to give their Government and not to us?
Does not the answer reflect
offspring and the beautiful
grandchildren of these hard­ the opinions of other Canadi­
working Issei, a level of edu­ ans who see only “yellow
cation every Nisei is proud to skins?” If Canadians cannot
overcome this attitude, then
acknowledge.
The Japanese Canadians let us revise to their archaic
are a proud race of people be­ opinions and create a Japan­
ginning with the Issei and the ese Canadian Society that
following Nisei, despite the will sparkle and live up to our
setbacks they suffered. We, opinions of a Japanese Cana­
as a J.C. society can be proud dian;
We need to unite together
to be Canadians of Japanese
descent. We have never gone to show Caucasian society
crying to Ottawa or wherever, that we are a strong, proud,
to demand assistance to get and hard-working race that
back on our feet — even after can and will weather all set
the Evacuation and the con­ backs because we have Issei
blood coursing through our
centration camps.
In memory to our historical community. We are not about
background, planted in to concede defeat — the
Canada by the Issei seed, it Issei didn't know its mean­
behooves the J.C. community ing!
This J.C. dream is a must
of Toronto to make every ef­
fort to establish a Japanese that began with the Issei and
it is a definite “Felt Need”
that cannot be allowed to die
because of lack of communi­
ty interest and co-operation.
No one alone — Issei,
Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei, etc. —
can fight “old age” or illness
that debilitate. This is one
31 Wellwood Street,
dream the the Issei began
over 9 years ago, tht the
Hamilton, Ontario L8T 3X2
M.H.C.S. inherited. The Momiji Complex must become a
reality. It is up to all of us to
make it a reality. And make no
mistake about it. It is all
about us, our roots, our past,
and our future. We need the
love and understanding of all
Japanese Canadians in this
cause. We are all brothers
and sisters inextricably
Toronto Chapter
bound by our own unique,
592 Windermere Avenue, Toronto, Ont. M6S 3L8
beautiful Japanese Canadians
Phone 769-5327
heritage. Let's not let our
own selfs down. “Gambatte
Mrs. Michiho Tamura & Students
— ta-no-mi mashu!”

ions.
Added to their loss of inde­
pendence, they have also lost
the feeling that they are
“needed people.” We must
provide medicine for this
sore need by finding ways to
show that they are also part
of our community and socie­
ty. Where else can this need
be mitagated other than a
J.C. operated home for the
JC's of all generations? Im­
mobility does not necessarily
afflict the old this problem
can also be addressed by the
M.H.C.S.
It has been my experience,
through past years, to learn
that Canadians (English,
French Canadians, Jewish
senior citizens) of other eth­
nic groups are banded toge­
ther to study the problems of
the aged, all across Ontario
and the rest of Canada, and to
organize groups to lobby Ot­
tawa for senior citizens rights
and all seniors are benefit­
ing form these Senior Citi­
zens of Ontario activities.
At a conference I attended
several years ago, held in St.
Catharines, I was amazed and
gladdened to find the Chinese
had representation at this all­
Canada conference. Their
conferences are held in diff­
erent cities across Canada.
Because we Nisei can partici­
pate in action led by the Cen­
tral S.C.O. due to language
ability, we can assist the
Issei with problems that harrass them because they can­
not speak English. The Chi­
nese Seniors had a young ar­
ticulate Chinese speak for
them at this conference.
There are problems that
harrass seniors and our com­
munity should be obligated
to help Issei and Nisei who
have problems difficult to
solve.
We Nisei are all the off­
spring of Issei parents and I
do not need to expound, here,
all the severe hardships, set­
backs, the frustrations
through which they all lived.
They sacrificed their long­

Season 's Greetings
Roy and Mitsuko Ito

Season rs Greetings
Misho-ryu Ikebana

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Season 's Greetings
Hoping the New Year brings a more healthy and en­
joyable life to each of you.
I sincerely wish to thank all the readers who bought :
my book, “Healthful Eating For Healthy Living.”
From January, 1986, I will be opening a new “Japa­
nese Cooking School” in Montreal. I hope to see many
of you enroll in this school for you own health as well
as for others.
Sincerely,
Teruha Kagemori,
331 Emery St. Suite 3,
Montreal, P.Q. H2X 1J2
Telephone (514) 842-9672

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Mr. Roger Obata . . .

World War II Nisei veteran goes out to
schools to teach students about Evacuation
By Sarah Jane Growe
The nail that sticks out is
the one that gets hit.
— Japanese saying
Re-enacting the events
that led to the evacuation of
31,000 Japanese Canadians
from the West Coast of Cana­
da during World War II cannot
alter the shameful course of
history, secondary students
from 30 Toronto schools have
discovered.
But it can pave the way to­
ward seeing it never happens
again.
In fact, both students and
members of the Japanese Ca­
nadian community participa­
ting in a recent Toronto board
of education conference
were trying to come to terms
with what they would do dif­
ferently if they had the
chance.
“There are a lot of ques­
tions here and I am having
trouble getting an answer,”
said Bill Arsenault of Contact
Secondary School. “We
blame the government but we
elected it.”
Arsenault and about 20
others spent the morning ac­
ting out three historical sce­
narios prepared and conduct­
ed by Toronto board of educa­
tion drama teachers for use in
each of 10 small groups.
Thoughts and feelings were
running high.
Each of them, in getting in­
to a role, had to grope for the
words to support it and in do­
ing so actually experienced,
for an instant, the frustration,
the anger, the mistrust, the
fear and even the prejudice.
“How can you put a price
on it?” asked Lynda Penny of
Malvern Collegiate. “The gov­
ernment didn't do it. Do you
want to dig up (prime minister
William Lyon) Mackenzie
King's body?”
The questions were di­
rected to Roger Obata, a
70-year-old Nisei, or secondgeneration Japanese Cana­
dian the group's community
resource person sent by the
National Association of Japa­
nese Canadians, a co-sponsor of the unique one-day
conference. The association
wants Ottawa to compensate
the 10,000 survivors of the in­
ternment for their loss.
“What about other minori­
ties?” asked Mark Furtado of
Eastern Commerce. “Won't
it (redress for Japanese Cana­
dians) set a dangerous prece­
dent?”
Despite reference to the
10,000 Acadians ordered out
of Nova Scotia at the height
of the French-English struggle
for control of the North Amer­
ican colonies in 1755, Obata
said no other minority in

Roger Obata meets with students seeking to understand Evacuation
TORONTO. — Mr. Roger Obata, a 70-year old
Nisei army veteran, discusses the World War II
evacuation of Japanese Canadians with students
at a recent Toronto Board of Education confer­
ence. (Left to right) Kathy Hollin, 17, Lynda PenCanada has the same history
of mass expulsion. “It is equi­
valent to apartheid, even
worse, right here in our own
country of Canada,” he said.
During World War II, many
Canadians, especially in Ont­
ario, were not aware of what
was happening in British Col­
umbia, where Japanese immi­
grants first settled in 1877
and where they were thriving
as fishermen and farmers,
Obata explained.
What was happening, in
fact, was the dispersal of the
entire Japanese Canadian
coastal population, most of
whom were either born in
Canada or were naturalized
Canadian citizens. And the
Japanese Canadian commu­
nity, according to some of its
members,
has
never
recovered.
“Why didn't you go back
to B.C.?” Penny asked.
“There was nothing to go
back to,” Obata answered.
Indeed, although the war
— the government's ration­
ale for using the sweeping
emergency powers of the War
Measures Act to strip Japanese-Canadians of their
rights as citizens — ended in
1945, Japanese Canadians
were not allowed to return to
the coast until 1949. By that
time, 10,000 had chosen “re­
patriation” to Japan accor­
ding to a “voluntary” twoyear deportation policy insti­
tuted by the federal govern­
ment in 1945 after the War
Measures Act could no longer
be legally supported.

“They weren't really wor­
ried about us spying,” Obata
told the group. “They wanted
to drive us out of the fishing
industry — for economic rea­
sons.”
Just the same, except for a
group of about 750 protesters
sent to a special barbed-wire
prison camp at Angler in Nor­

thern Ontario, most of the
Japanese Canadians, anx­
ious to prove their loyalty,
moved — to ghost town
shacks in B.C.'s interior, to
sugar beet farms in Alberta
and Manitoba, and to work in
Ontario — quietly.
“If you had it to do over
again, would you change the
way the Japanese dealt with
the problem?” asked Simon
Tabak of Jarvis Collegiate.
“I don't think it would be
very different,” Obata said.
“The War Measures Act is
still in place. But we would
fight for our rights. We would
appeal to the Canadian public
to help us.”
Just such an appeal was an­
nounced by the national as­
sociation Nov. 11.-After 40
years of silence, some of the
45,000 Japanese Canadians
in Canada want the past re­
vived, at least to the extent
of receiving an official apolo­
gy from Ottawa, monetary
compensation for the loss of
property and freedom, and an
overhaul of the War Measures
Act, used again by the federal
government in 1970 to arrest
without charge and jail with­
out trial 497 Canadians dur­
ing the 197-day FLQ crisis in
Quebec.
But there are others in the
community who are still
afraid to speak out.
“There is a Japanese say­
ing,” lawyer Maryka Omatsu
told the assembly of 230 stu­
dents at the end of the day.
“The nail that sticks out is
the one that gets hit.”
And there are still others in
the community who are un­
sure and confused.
“I want to fly home to
Thunder Bay and get my par­
ents to talk,” said Kathi Silk,
a 38-year-old Sansei, or thirdgeneration Japanese Canadi­
an, who asked to attend the
conference after learning
about it in her capacity as a

ny, 18, Noreen Francis, 21, and Simon Tabak, 17.
Obata is one of the community resource persons
sent by the National Association of Japanese
Canadians, co-sponsors of this unique one-day
conference.
guidance counsellor at Bloor
Collegiate. “I don't even
know what their stand on re­
dress is.”
Until Silk was 19, she knew
nothing about the events that
caused her mother's family
to lose everything they own­
ed in Steveston, B.C., and her
father to be imprisoned in
Angler because he came
home from bowling late one
night and missed curfew.

in tune
And until the conference,
she knew little else.
“Now, I am emotionally in
tune with what must have
happened to my parents,”
she said. “No, it is not very in­
teresting. It's very awful. It's
such an emotional experi­
ence for me. I am asking
myself a lot of questions I
can't answer.”
It is the same for the stu­
dents. Many of them said
they had never until that day,
heard of the internment, ex­
cept in passing reference.
The Ministry of Education's
1977 curriculum guide makes
it compulsory for every Grade
9 or 10 student in Ontario to
study Canadian contempor­
ary and world issues, says
Arlene Breithaupt, the Toron­
to board of education's
social studies co-ordinator.
“The internment is taught
within the context of that
course,” she adds, “but the
kids are young. It is their first
exposure to history and it
may.be something they don't
understand.”
That's why the National
Association of Japanese
Canadians asked the Toronto
school board last spring to try
out this kind of conference.
“We already have a cross­
school model from other con­
ferences where the students
have an opportunity to explore
ideas in a non-judgmental
setting, without tests or

essays,” says Penny Moss,
Toronto school board chair.
“But this is the first one on
Japanese Canadians. And it
is the first time we have
sought the involvement of
drama teachers, which broa­
dens the perspective even
further.

New directions
“Not only are there all
kinds of students but also all
kinds of teachers who do not
usually work together. Both
are important new directions
for the school system.”
But the conference, Right­
ing The Wrong: The Japanese
Canadian Experience During
the Second World War, was
not a day for debate. At its
end, planning committee
spokesman Senz Hamilton, a
student at Bloor Collegiate,
urged everyone to return to
school, to parents and to
friends and advocate redress.
“Write the Prime Minister
or editors of newspapers or
go visit your local MP,” Ham­
ilton said. “Get the school
trustees to pass a resolution
in favor of redress. Or send a
statement of support to the
National Association of Japa­
nese Canadians.”.
Politicization?
“There is that danger,”
conference organizer Hari
Laila, curriculum adviser on
race relations and multicul­
turalism for the Toronto
board, admitted. “The Nation­
al Association of Japanese
Canadians wants redress.
The people here will get only
one side. There is no debate.
We can't avoid a bias.”
One of the day's many un­
answered questions may,
perhaps, best assess the
trade-off.
“How successful is the
government in prosecuting
bigots?” asked Furtado. No
one knew how to reply.
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THE

J.C.C. Centre's 1985 activities
The Japanese Canadian
Cultural Centre in Toronto
had a calendar of eventfilled days during 1985.
Beginning with the Con­
sul General of Japan New
Year's Levee on January
4th, there was the Sama
Zama Fashion Show parti­
cipated
and
attended
mostly by young Sansei,
Sumi-e Art Show in Feb­
ruary, Rotary and J.C.C.C.
Monte Carlo Nite in March
in aid of the Easter Seal
Campaign, Reception Par­
ty to mark the publication
of Roy Ito's book “We
Went to War”, Spring
Festival, Open House dur­
ing “Japan Week”, Haruno-Matsuri, Princess Ball,
Dinner for Past Directors,
Annual Bazaar, Karate
Tournament, Caravan,
Community Picnic at Ca­
ledon Place, Welcome Re­
ception for Ambassador
Kikuchi, Shodo Exhibi­
tion, Bunka Shishu Exhi­
bition, Pioneer Day, Mas­
querade Ball, Alrtisan ’85
Young People's Dance,
and New Year's Eve Din­
ner and Dance.
Interspread with the
above activities were the
numerous dances held by
the various community
organizations. The Film
Society held showings of
Japanese movies several
Sundays during the year.
Karaoke singers had their
Karaoke Concert while
thespian
and
vocalist
participated in Haru-noUta Matsuri, Aki-no-Uta
Matsuri and Kohaku-UtaGassen.
The Centre's Martial
Arts Groups, Karate, Aiki­
do, Judo and Kendo, are
active throughout the
year, and classes on
Conversational Japanese,
Bunka Shishu, Ikebana,
Shodo and Sumi-e held
during the Fall and Spring
sessions on a ten-week
basis.

Centre
affiliated
groups, Ayame-kai, Sakura-kai, and the Toronto Su­
wa Daiko did much in the
way of public relations
within the Metropolitan
Toronto area, while grand­
parents, parents and pre­
schoolers joined in the
fun of activities and songs
under a program called
Kodomo-No-Tame Ni.
Hi-fu-mi Steppers and
Wynford Seniors are two
groups of young Senior
Citizens who come out to
the Centre to exercise,
learn line dances and
practice ball-room danc­
ing.
The Centre, during the
year, had the opportunity
to welcome many dignita­
ries from Japan, including
the Minister of Industry
and Commerce, Honour­
able Keijiro Murata.
Canadian Red Cross
Society use the Centre
facilities as blood Donors'
Clinic several times a year.
The Japanese Canadian
Cultural Centre is very
grateful that so many peo­
ple are able to use our fa­
cilities and is indebted to
the members of the com­
munity who volunteer their
services to help provide
the manpower required to
maintain the many on­
going projects of the
Centre. Ladies of the W.A.
have been especially help­
ful in many areas.
In reflecting the passing
of the year 1985, we see
the spirit of the Issei evi­
dent in the Nisei, Sansei
and Yonsei, as well as the
Shin-iju-sha who are work­
ing together culturally and
socially within the Centre
to fulfill the aims and pur­
pose upon which this Cen­
tre was'built and opened,
officially, in June 1964,
by the Prime Minister of
Canada, the late Right
Honourable Lester B. Pear­
son.
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National Assoc, of Japanese
Canadians activities update
By National Assoc, of J.C.
The President, Art Miki, re­
ported at the National Coun­
cil meeting held in Toronto,
November 9 to 11, 1985 on
the activities and participa­
tion of NAJC which have
taken place during the last
six months. While the major
focus has been on redress,
the NAJC has been actively
involved in other community
and social issues.

culturalism.

June 17 — Toronto
Maryka Omatsu and Roger Obata
representing the NAJC appeared
before the Equity Rights Parliamen­
tary Committee to present our posi­
tion regarding Section 15 of the Char­
ter of Rights and Freedoms. The pre­
sentation was well received by the
committee. The text of our presenta­
tion was sent out to all Council Mem­
bers.

September 25 — Winnipeg
The President met with Meyer
Kalin and Jeff Bien, two authors who
are writing a book on Media an the
Ethnic Community: A Guide to Effec­
tive Response. We had responded to
their questionaire and wanted to
meet NAJC to discuss the progress
of the Redress issue.

July 23 — Tokyo, Japan
While on vacation in Japan this
summer the President met with
members of the JACL Chapter in
Tokyo. Present at the meeting were
Calvin Kuniyuki, President, Barry Sai­
ki, Kay Tateishi, a Japanese Ameri­
can student from Los Angeles, Jean
Maeda and Keiko Miki. The JACL
members were interested in the Can­
adian progress on redress with the
Federal Government and how NAJC
managed to get extensive coverage
in the national media. They ex­
pressed concern that the American
movement was beginning to lose
momentum and that the present
economic climate in the US preven­
ted any favourable results.
July 26, 27 — Sao Paulo, Brazil
Cassandra Kobayashi represented
the NAJC at the 3rd Panamerican
Nikkei Conference at San Paulo.

August 6 — Winnipeg
The President was invited by the
Premier of Manitoba, Howard Paw­
ley, to a formal presentation to the
Consul-General of Japan declaring
Manitoba a nuclear free zone and re­
cognized the injustices to civilians
during the war such as the bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, A mem­
orial recognizing Manitoba's posi­
tion was unveiled.
August 9 to 11 — Ottawa
The NAJC sponsored five Japanese
Canadian youths to the first National
Cross-Cultural Youths Conference
held at the University of Ottawa. Re­
presentatives from our communities
were: Joan Nakamoto, Winnipeg,
Nora Nishikawa, Ottawa, Kerri Saka­
moto, Toronto, Jeanette Ryujin, Van­
couver, Mike Sameshima, Vancouver.

September 4 - Ottawa
Mrs. Kay Shimizu of Ottawa repre­
sented the NAJC at the CEC meeting
concerning the establishment of a
Legal Committee for Charter chal­
lenges and its functions. Shimizu
has indicated that she would be will­
ing to sit on this CEC Legal Commitee.
September 15 •— Winnipeg
A meeting with Otto Jelinek, Doug
Bowie, and Kim Tam and members of
NEC, Art Miki, Harold Hirose, Lucy
Yamashita and Henry Kojima was
held at the International Airport.

September 16 — Ottawa
Members of the Ottawa Japanese
Canadian Association represented
the NAJC at the Canadian Ethnocul­
tural Council reception at Parliament
Hill to mark the establishment of a
Parliamentary Committee on Multi­

tor. A lively question and answer
period followed.

September 17 — Winnipeg
The members of NEC, Art Miki,
Lucy Yamashita and Carol Mat­
sumoto met with Martin Zeilig and
Vai of the Winnipeg Coordinating
Committee for Disarmament
(WCCD). This organization is respon­
sible for the Walk For Peace march in
Winnipeg and the Shadow Project in
recognition of the nuclear holocaust
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They are
members of the National Peace Alli­
ance and asked for our participation
at the national level.

October 21 — Toronto
A meeting of the NAJC Negotia­
tion team and Mr. Otto Jelinek, Doug
Bowie and Kim Tam was held to dis­
cuss redress matters.

October 25, 26 and 27 — Winnipeg
The President attended the Cana­
dian Ethnocultural Council meeting
which was held in Winnipeg. Presi­
dents of 30 national organizations
met to discuss networking, the cen­
sus, economy related to multicultur­
alism and organizational matters.
November 1 — Edmonton
A community meeting was held in
Edmonton to update the progress on
redress by the President. Ann Suna­
hara spoke on the Charter of Rights
and Freedoms and the War Mea­
sure's Act while Cassandra Kobaya­
shi discussed the necessity of the
Price Waterhouse Study. Roy Miki
spoke about Muriel Kitagawa and the
book he is writing. Gordon Hirabaya­
shi addressed the issue: Why the Re­
dress issue now and why compensa­
tion? Alan Hoyano was the modera­

November 2 — Calgary
A Calgary educational forum was
held at the W.R. Castell Central Li­
brary Auditorium featuring speakers
from Western Canada as well as local
presenters. About 80 students, tea­
chers, interested people including
Japanese Canadians from Calgary
and Lethbridge attended. Roy Miki
spoke on the History of the Japanese
Canadian followed by Dr. L.S. Kawa­
mura's talk “The War and its Conse­
quences.” Dr. M. Watanabe spoke on
his experiences in the ghost town
and Ann Sunahara gave the historical
grounds for redress. A panel of spea­
kers spoke on the civil rights issues,
the Price Waterhouse Study, the
compensation issue, current NAJC
activities and an update on negotia­
tions. Dr. Tom Enta and Jack Omura
were the masters of ceremonies.

Canadian Japanese Mennonite
Scholarship
Lucy Yamashita, NEC, met
with members of the Menno­
nite Central Committee Cana­
da to discus the criteria for
the scholarship fun on Octo­
ber 30 in Winnipeg. The criter­
ia and application form will
be sent to all centers for dis­
tribution as well as to the
educational institutions.
A committee consisting of
representatives from NAJC
and MCCC will assess the ap­
plications and select the
scholarship recipient.
A letter of support for the
concerns expressed by the
Chinese Canadian National
Council regarding the film
“Year of the Dragon” was
sent to the film producers
and a copy to the Minister of
Multiculturalism.

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Prewar days at U.B.C. ...

Prof. E. H. Morrow and his Nisei students
“It is a fact that no person of Japanese race born in Cana­
da has been charged with any act of sabotage or disloyalty
during the years Of the war. ”
Mackenzie King, August 1944
By YUKO SHIBATA and ULRIKE HILBORN
VIEWPOINTS — WINTER 1982-1983

As the Japanese communi­ merce was not established families were shipped off to
. . . Please write me again giving
... As I was the first Can. Japanese
ties grew, the Nisei's pro­ until 1939-40. Ellis H. Morrow the ghost towns in the inter­ me any practical advice ...
to come to Oshawa I received some
publicity on the front page of the
Yours sincerely, Fred Sasaki
blems of social identity, as­ had been called to Vancouver ior of B.C., their houses, cars,
local newspaper. I didn't know of
similation, and a viable future to head the new department. stores, all their “riches” were
this till my employer brought it to my
3 July 1942
grew steadily. They were Can­ Morrow was born in Argentin- taken away by the stroke of a Dear Sasaki:
attention. I guess a little publicity
adians by birth, but they were a, the son of a railroad engin­ pen and the future look bleak
wouldn't hurt me one bit..
I was glad to get your letter and am
denied the rights of citizenship eer, and he grew up in the indeed.
not particularly surprised that you do
Yours sincerely,
not
take
to
store
work.
I
think
I
told
George
Yamashita
just as their Issei parents. best tradition of “let's get
With great sadness, E.H.
They made representation to this thing done!” At Harvard Morrow watched his students you that I did not believe that type of
operation would suit your tempera­
16 June 1942
the government asking to be he had become a convert to go, but he did not give up. He ment. ... One great advantage of go­ Dear Yamashita:
enfranchised, pointing to the business game method continued to look after them, ing to Ontario will be that It will give
I got your long and newsy letter
their national character of which he introduced at UBC. trying to soften the cruel joke you a chance to get into touch with and enjoyed immensely hearing from
you. . .. Your thesis is an excellent
obedience to government, His new faculty consisted of being played on these fervent the industrial set-up.
...
I
am
going
to
see
if
I
can
do
piece of work. Incidentally, had the
their fervent desire to become himself, A. Currie, Fred Field, Canadians and they respond­
anything to get you worth while intro­
thesis counted for a grade, you
Canadian in more than name and John Farris. They taught ed to his fatherly concern ductions in Ontario. You will appreci­ would have got a first class on it.
only and appealing in vain to accounting, business law, with gratitude, seeking ad­ ate that it is somewhat difficult right
. . . Shiozaki was in yesterday and
the British sense of fair play. business finance industrial vice, keeping in touch, trying now, but I will do my best. In any he leaves this week for Edmonton
In 1935, to convince the rest management, foreign trade to put their learning to the event the experience you are getting with the idea of going on with his
of Canada that no yellow peril problems, and statistics. best use possible, never com­ will not be lost. Distribution is going academic work next fall in the Univer­
sity of Alberta. ...
to be the big post-war problem and a
lurked behind the shutters of Morrow believed in strong plaining or despairing of their little first-hand Insight into the selling
Sincerely, E.H. Morrow
the houses on Powell Street, ties with the downtown bus­ fate, and most of all, always and store operation would not hurt
19 May, 1942
a group of young Nisei, with iness community and he eager to live up to his expec­ you.
The
Edmonton
City
Council,
Sincerely, E.H. Morrow
the unflagging encourage­ made sure that his graduates tations. If circumstances had
Edmonton, Alberta
ment and help of Henry Angus, were properly placed with handed them a wild card, they
Re David F. Shiozaki
One of them, George
the head of the UBC econo­ suitable firms. He introduced would make the best of it and
Yamashita, had made it to Gentlemen:
mics department, conducted a docket system which kept be a credit to their mentor.
Mr. David F. Shiozaki is considering
Ontario
by
May
1942
and
he
academic
work at the University of
a study of the current status accurate student records and
19 May, 1942
sent
back
a
young
man
'
s
first
Alberta. He completed work for the
and future aspirations of the provided recommendations Dear Sasaki:
impressions
of
the
east.
B. Com. degree this spring. We found
I just wanted to drop you a line to
Japanese-Canadians. At this whenever one of his charges
him a satisfactory student in every
congratulate you on your first class
Oshawa, Ontario
point, the Nisei found them­ needed them. Like a benevo­ degree . . . You were in the running
way
and take pleasure in recommen­
May 31st, 1942
selves already in the classic lent father he shepherded his for the Gold Medal but Dave Harper Dear Mr. Morrow:
ding him to your favorable considera­
tion in the matter of moving to Ed­
and so very difficult position students through their school edged out both you and Pat McMahon.
After a very Interesting and enjoy­
monton.
The boys tell me that you are tak­
able trip across Canada I arrived in
of second generation immi­ years and kept watch over
Yours very truly, E.H. Morrow,
grants. Their parents despair­ their careers. He advised and ing to the store business like a duck Toronto Friday morning and stayed
Head of the Department
to water and when you have
there till Monday May 25th. I still
ed of them being too Canadian admonished, he fretted when takes
time I would like to hear how you are
think B.C. has the best scenery with
whle the Canadians refused things did not go right and it getting along and what you are do­ Ontario coming a close second. The
It was not to be. Shiozaki
to accept them as such and distressed him when he lost ing. It was too bad that you weren't Rockies revealed a sight which I shall felt that his duty to his family
considered them unassimila­ touch. He wrote many letters here to be capped with the rest of never forget. I am looking forward to and a greater duty to his peo­
the time when I shall return west
ted and Japanese. They were of recommendation, always them.
ple came before his desire to
Sincerely, E.H. Morrow
again across the Rockies to my native
torn between a Japan too mindful that his “boys” pur­
go on to graduate school and
home town, Vancouver.
remote to be real and a very sue a course that was most
Calgary, Alta. June 25, 1942
he stayed behind.
. . . The large department stores,
real and present Canada that suited to their individual abil­ Dear Professor Morrow:
Eaton's and Simpson's really im­
Thank you for sending me your
pressed me. I believe they have any
cruelly continued to reject ities.
Hastings Park Clearing Station
very
kind
and
encouraging
letter
...
of
the Vancouver stores all beat as
them.
Vancouver, B.C.
Then came Pearl Harbor Naturally, I was overjoyed when I heard far as modern facilities go, but I think
July 15, 1942
In the 1930s the more pros­ and in its wake, on January that I had graduated with First Class Vancouver stores have better win­
Dear
Sir:
perous Issei began to send 14th, 1942, the Canadian gov­ Standing. When I left Vancouver, I felt dow displays and also better adverti­
I' m very sorry for not writing you
their children to university. ernment proclaimed a policy that I would give anything if I could sing ...
sooner. Instead of being In Edmon­
If Vancouver streets are dark and
The Nisei students understood of removal of all “enemy ali­ just graduate ...
ton, I have been held back in Vancou­
Since May I have been working . dirty, I wouldn't know what I'd call
that they did not stand a ens” from defined protected
ver for several reasons. Firstly, the
every day (at the store)... My duty is
Toronto. I'II take Vancouver anytime.
chance to succeed in any of areas in B.C., a strip of land to take care of the stock room and to Another thing I found out in Toronto Hastings Park officials want me to
the traditional professions 100 miles wide from the coast see that the display counters are well is the fact that people there are vey stay out here teaching the school.
Secondly, the Manual Training and
and turned to economics and inland. The Japanese Canadi­ filled with goods . . . Whenever it is hard to get to know ...
Handicraft Department wants me as
commerce as a way to a better ans were first rounded up in busy, I go out and serve the custom­
Yamashita was working on one of the men to do some organiza­
life. There were also some Hastings Exhibition Park, ers too. In addition, I deliver goods a farm in Oshawa. He was tion and leadership work in the inter­
on a bicycle every day from 4:00 p.m.
hints from members of the where 4,000 people lived in on. In general, I guess I am what you surprised and impressed with ior ghost towns. I thought it would be
community who had gone makeshift shelters until their might call a “general handy man.” I the relatively high living stan­ better to stay here despite the volun­
tary work for the skae of the rest of
east that Toronto did not evacuation to the Interior. By do practically everything. I sweep dards on the farm and applied the people rather than leave for Ed­
place restrictions on people October 1942, 22,000 had floors, do messenger work, and any­ himself to farm work with monton ... once I get to one of the
of Japanese ancestry, that been evacuated from coastal thing else that might crop up. My customary diligence.
ghost towns, I shall be on the regular
hours of work, therefore, are unusu­
working staff and I feel that I can
there were jobs to be had, B.C.
The farm here is a 125 acre mixed far­
ally long, from 8:00 A.M. to 7:30 P.M.
my studies at either Wes­
and that in the east the dream
During all this turmoil the So far, I haven't had any opportunity ming. We have cows, horses, pigs, continue
tern
or
Queen's
University after the
might just possibly come class of 1942 graduated and to apply my Marketing, Statistics, Ac­ and chickens. The policy out her is duration.
early to bed and early to rise. Up at
true. Nisei enrollment at UBC except for Fred Sasaki all of counting knowledge to my work. 5:30 and quit usually after 8 at night,
I wish to thank you for all you've
They are starting me at the very bot­
climbed steadily until its high the Morrow's “boys” manag­ tom rung of the ladder. However, I do and then it's bed time anytime be­ done for me during the past three
years, and especially during the last
point of 76 in 1941-42. That ed to finish in Vancouver. not see much opportunity for advance­ tween 9:30 and 10 P.M.
few months ...
. . . Finally, I would like to thank
academic year saw 6 Nisei Sasaki, who was technically ment as the owner' s four sons are all
Yours very sincerely, David Shiozaki
you for your kindness shown to us
enrolled in a Commerce class an Issei, having brought to working at the same store and hold Japanese
as you did likewise to the
of 50. They were Akira Nam­ Canada when he was nine all of the important positions. Never­ other Canadian boys. However, I felt
One of the two 1940 B.
theless, I am studying as hard as I
ba, Roy Nose, Shigekazu months old, moved to Calgary can
you were extra kind to us. Of course,
Com. graduates, Kasey Oyama,
three nights a week, getting hold
Okuno, Fred Sasaki, David and took his final exams by of any book on retailing. However, I know you would say that you were had been working in a clothing
Shiozaki, and George Yama­ correspondence. Suddenly, somehow I can' t get enthused over there to help us out, but I feel that store since 1941. In the sum­
you were like a father to us and that
shita. Total enrollment at the reasonably bright hopes my work.
mer of 1942, Morrow had lost
you were more than the head of the
Consequently,
I
am
trying
to
find
UBC was still less than 3000. of the six B. Com.'s had
Commerce Dept.__
track of him and he worried.
farm work in Ontario where I could
While a degree in commerce come to naught. There was call my mother and my sisters and
It looks like I have a lot to learn in
had been granted earlier, the no employment for enemy ali­ there live together. At the present this farming business. However, I
(Cont. from page 10)
shall do my best.
UBC Department of Com­ ens in white collar jobs, their time they are living in Kaslo, B.C.

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Nisei Students ...
August 28, 1942
Dear Oyama
It is quite a while since I have heard
from you. What are you doing and
how are you getting on? Shiozaki told
me that you were doing some teach­
ing down at Hastings Park.
There is a glimmer of a chance that
we may be able to get you placed in a
business in eastern Canada. There­
fore, I want full particulars regarding
your employment and experience
since graduation. Will you please
send me these ...
I have been wondering how you are
getting along and would like to hear
from you.
With warm regards, Sincerely,
E.H. Morrow

Oyama did not go east ei­
ther. He too landed in a ghost
town, New Denver, where he
got settled in the clothing
business.
December 17, 1943

Dear Mr. Morrow,
It's over one year since I left Van­
couver — and I'm still here in New
Denver & now making my report to
you.
The business is running smoothly.
I'm practically managing the sports­
wear factory — which altho' it em­
ploys only 6 girls at present is doing
very well. We're considering moving
the factory somewhere in the East
while times are good. I don't know
yet what difficulties lie in the way

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(Cont. from page 9)
with the restrictions of Trades &
Prices Board, etc.
... I'm thinking of taking a looksee trip across Canada to Montreal.
Stopping over at Calgary, Winnipeg,
Toronto, etc. This will be in March or
April — and I shall look into the pos­
sibility of reestablishing ourselves in
the East — probably Montreal.

A Happy New Year To All

New Denver, B.C., Winter 1943/44

... New Denver is a beautiful place
in a valley surrounded by mountains
& located by a beautiful large lake.
There is one tug boat plying the lake
& its lonesome whistle sometimes re­
calls Vancouver to me. So does the
train whistle of a branch CPR line
that passes New Denver on its way to
Kaslo once a week ...
. . . Our family is holding together
at least — tho I wish sometimes that
I were free to move east on my own.
Still I think staying in New Denver
has given me valuable experience & a
greater appreciation of life ...
Sincerely, Kazuhiko Oyama

Not everyone took such a
sanguine view of camp life. In
a rare breach with the utter re­
ticence of the boys to com­
plain, David Shiozaki wrote to
Morrow on December 10,1942,
... It was on December the first that
I finally moved out of a tent-house.
With two others I remained in a tent for
three and one-half months, in fact I
was one of the last three people to

(Cont. on page 11)

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Nisei Students ...
move into a house, since at the time
there was no housing accomodation
for us. Of course, we had a small camp
stove in the tent, but with the approach
of cold weather in October, the life was
none too comfortable. It was quite an
experience for me. For the last three
weeks or so, we have been having
snow all along.

Morrow, however, was not
overly concerned with phys­
ical deprivation of the true
Canadian kind.
I was very interested in your re­
marks about sleeping in a tent until
just recently. I have no sympathy
with you at all for the reason that
when I was about your age I spent a
whole winter in a tent in Alberta and I
didn' t have a stove at that. ... As far
as I can remember I had a kind of
nest made of blankets, rugs, carriage
robes and what not and I dug myself
out in the morning and shook myself
like a dog and went to work.

Eventually, all the boys left
the camps and went east
to seek a better life under less
restrictive conditions. David
Shiozaki went to Montreal
where he and Akira Namba
roomed together. In 1945
Shiozaki had been denied ac­
ceptance as a student by the
Institute of Chartered Ac­
countants in Toronto be­
cause of his Japanese back­
ground and had then moved
to Montreal where he worked
as an office manager for a
manufacturing concern. Aki
Namba had found work with a
large wholesale grocery con­
cern and “both of us are hap­
py to say that we are doing
fairly well.” For Shiozaki,
though, the homesickness
for B.C. never eased and he
still longs for Vancouver after
40 years of absence. He is
waiting for his son's gradua­
tion from dental school and
then hopes to retire in Van­
couver. Akira Namba now
lives in Japan, possibly one
of the many who were “repa­
triated” after the war to a
country they knew only from
the tales of their parents.
Kasey Oyama became
manager of “Super Style
Manufacturing Co.” in New
Denver. He realized that if he
and the owner, a Miss Suzuki,
wanted to make a go of it,
they had to move the business
to the east. In the spring of
1944 he took the train across
the country to Montreal. Arm­
ed with letters of introduction
by Morrow, he hoped to esta­
blish business connections
to further the move of Super
Style. However, in the spring
of 1945, he became the editor
of The New Canadian, the En­
glish language newspaper of
the Japanese-Canadians.
“The reason for my change of
job is quite odd, involving
most unexpected circum­
stances.” The previous
editor, Tom Shoyama*, in a
tenacious fight to prove the
loyalty of the Japanese Cana­
dians, had managed to enlist
in an intelligence group of
the Canadian Armed Forces,
where he served with Judy

LaMarsh and Arthur Erickson.
By the summer of. 1945,
Oyama and The New Canadi­
an had moved offices to Win­
nipeg.
I'm finding Winnipeg a very livable
place, although not having gone
through the winder, I may be speak­
ing too soon. A great part of the pop­
ulation here are Ukrainians and Jews.
Of course there are very: many Scot­
tish people too. I believe it is partly
due to the influence of the Winnipeg
Free Press that the atmosphere is
very tolerant here. There is also a
minority consciousness which I find
very pleasant.

In 1948 Oyama and The
New Canadian moved again,
this time to Toronto, and
while Oyama was thinking of
going into the printing busi­
ness, he never lost his inter­
est in the “women's wear
manufacturing game, . . .
which seems to offer the
most substantial future.”
After three months of farm
life, George Yamashita took
his letter of recommendation
from Morrow and decided “to
take a gamble on Montreal,”
and look for an accountant's
job. Morrow was fretful; he
did not want his boys jobless
and “hung up in one of the
eastern cities and running in­
to real hard conditions.”
There were no jobs at first,
but eventually Yamashita was
accepted with Margolese &
Margolese, auditors and ac­
countants. In a remarkably
short time, he had achieved
the goal of a white collar job
for which he was trained.
When I come to think of it I've
been quite fortunate in being able to
obtain a position in such a short per­
iod of time, when most of the people
that I know had had to wait from 3-4
months. I am quite happy with my job
and therefore I have no kicks to
make. All and all, this evacuation has
been fairly good to me. If I was in Bri­
tish Columbia, my B. Comm, would
probably have been of little use to
me, whereas, here in Montreal it has
proven to be a stepping stone in my
career.

His brother Thomas was
not so lucky. He was rejected
in his efforts to enter the Col­
lege of Optometry in Toronto.
Japanese Canadians were
barred from certain universi­
ties. George Yamashita him­
self was rejected by the Insti­
tute of Chartered Accountants
in 1943, but in 1944 he was
finally accepted for the Char­
tered Accountant's program.
He managed to move his fam­
ily to Montreal, they bought a
rooming house near the uni­
versity and looked confi­
dently into the future. One of
Yamashita's best moments
came in 1944 when “On elec­
tion day, I cast my vote for the
first time in my lifetime. That
was a day when I really felt
proud to be a Canadian citizen
and executed my duty in the
gov't, of my province. It is a
grand feeling to attain some­
thing which has been eluding
your grasp for so long.” It
would be 1949 before B.C.

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saw fit to enfranchise its min­
orities.
Toward the end of 1942,
Fred Sasaki decided if was
time to go east. His father
worked near Port Arthur and
Fred was prepared to go
there too. This distressed
Morrow quite a bit. He sent
letter after letter to his con­
nections in the east trying to
place Sasaki.
... His father is at present working as
a cook's helper in a lumber camp ...
and I suppose this is what has given
Fred the idea. It is quite all right for
Fred's father to have a job of this
kind but I think it is sheer waste for
Fred to be employed in a lumber camp.
He is a very able young man and
would be extremely useful as an em­
ployee for anyone in a nOn-war indus­
try. They are desperately short of
men, from what they say, and it seems
to be stupid to waste this boy in.man­
ual labour...
... I am particularly exercised
about Sasaki. He has such an able
mind that I think he should be placed

from

page

to get a better job, seeing no
opportunity for advancement
at Hunt's, and to continue
his studies if he could. How­
ever, the Board of Governors
of the University of Toronto
refused him admission to do
graduate work. “It was quite a
blow to me , as I had been
planning and saving for two
years in order to continue my
studies.” But he did get a bet­
ter job as filler of mail orders
with Canadian Tire. Very soon
his talents were noticed by
Midland, a supplier of piston
rings to Canadian Tire, who
offered him a position as of­
fice manager. This led to a
talk with the vice president of
Canadian Tire and a transfer
to their accounting depart­
ment. In 1947 he became
chief accountant.

10)
ken and the Nisei, scattered,
were free to pursue lives
quite different from the ones
they had been expected to
live in the confines of the
small Japanese-Canadian
communities.
... As you can see, we are all bet­
ter off than we were in British Colum­
bia. Niseis are getting into firms
where we would have never dreamed
of in Vancouver. Of course, there is
an acute labour shortage — our big­
gest worry, our test, Iles just before
us in the post-war period. When all
the war industries close and when
the soldiers come back and when
jobs get scarce, where will the Nisei
stand? This is a very selfish view­
point, but one cannot help thinking
about it at times (Sasaki, 1945).

As it turned out, the Nisei
proved themselves. Through
their disposal, they finally
managed to become part of
mainstream Canada, even
Throughout the war and un­ though it often was at the ex­
til 1950 when Morrow retired, pense of thejr Japanese roots.
*Tom Shoyama graduated
the boys kept in touch with
him. He was keenly interested from UBC in 1938 with a Com­
In 1943, Fred landed in To­ in their whereabouts and merce degree, was Senior De­
ronto and found that there tried to keep track of all of puty Minister of the Province
were no accountant's jobs them. In 1942, Alexander Grant of Saskatchewan from 1946for people of Japanese origin. in Winnipeg had kept Morrow 1964, he spent two years with
the Economic Council and
“Since coming here I have informed of what he knew:
joined the Finance Depart­
met two of your former stu­
ment in 1968 as an ADM, he
Henry Ide has been trying to join
dents, Luke Tanabe and Tat­
became Deputy Minister of
suo Sanmiya. Luke is working the Air Force ...
Tesuo Aoki I cannot get any trace
Energy, Mines and Resources
for a watch company and I
of.
from 1974-1975, and Deputy
hear he is doing well. Tatsuo
Tatsuo Sanmiya was at the Univer­
is working for the Viceroy sity of Western Ontario. When (for­ Minister of Finance from ;
Rubber Company operating mer Liberal Premier of Ontario) Hep­ 1975-1979. He retired from
some kind of machine. If I burn made a speech last summer the government service and is
Ontario universities cancelled the re­
now in residence at the
cannot find something pretty gistration
of boys who had not been
soon, I think I will work with in attendance. Some of his friends School of Public Affairs at
the University of Victoria.
Tatsuo.” Soon after he did think Tats has a job in Toronto.
Roy Nose got his MBA
Luke Tanabe is working in Toronto.
land a job as a shipper and re­
from Harvard and became a
Akira Namba is timekeeper for the
ceiver with Hunt's Ltd., a
project in Slocan City.
partner in a stockbroker's
candy manufaturer. A talk work
Roy Nose is in Montreal, has a job,
with the company president but I do not know what it is or where firm. After a long illness, he
died in February 1982.
about doing accounting work he can be reached.
Henry Ide worked for the
Peter Yamada is working on the
led nowhere.
Ontario Government • Sales
Iona Jersey Farms. He had a rather
bad accident but has pretty well re­ Tax Division and retired early.
... it seems that he can do nothing
covered, I understand.
Peter Yamada never realiz­
for me for the duration. Employers are
ed his dream of a law degree.
all afraid that if they hire a Nisei,
By 1945, the boys' lives He worked for Lever Brothers
there will be opposition among the
had improved considerably. but eventually left the “rat
employees... They had formed their
opinions of Japanese-Canadians by
Sasaki wrote to Morrow.
race” and taught at Mohawk
reading newspaper articles (most of
College. He died in 1981.
which is unfavorable to us). We have
Roy Nose is getting along splen­
to explain to them the whole story of
Luke Tanabe owns Ports
didly in his work as a statistician with
the evacuation. Most of them will not
international.
a financial paper publishing firm. It
believe us. Moreover, we are asked
George Yamashita is
seems that Montreal business firms
why we are not serving in the Armed
are more tolerant in their attitudes
comptroller with Gaytogs
Services if we are Canadians. They
concerning Nisei employees. . . .
Ltd. in Quebec.
are ignorant of the fact that the gov­
About 2 months ago, Luke Tanabe
ernment will not accept us at the pre­
Kasey Oyama started a clo­
started a business in partnership
sent time. I feel that the Nisei in the
thing business in Montreal
with a Jewish person — I believe
Eastern provinces have a heavy re­
and is now retired.
they manufacture cheap jewellry and
sponsibility upon their shoulders.
ornaments. Tats Sanmiya is getting ’
Fred Sasaki is Vice Presi­
For it is upon ourselves to sell our­
along very well in his music studies.
dent of Finance and treasurer
selves to our fellow Canadians. Oth­
Recently he was on the program of
erwise, we have no place to go, for
for Canadian Tire Corporation
the Rosselini Opera Company on a
there is a verbal agreement between
and is thinking of retiring.
concert held at Eaton's auditorium.
the Provincial and Dominion gov'ts
For a while, and with some
Peter Yamada is doing accounting
that if the provinces so request, the
and stock-keeping work for a firm in
for ail these 40 years, the
Dominion government will send the
Orillia. David Shiozaki is working for
yearning for Vancouver and
Niseis back to B.C. within 6 months
a chartered accountant in Toronto...
after the conclusion of hostilities.
the relatively carefree years
He has been refused admittance to
We know we can never return to
of their youth remained. The
the Institute of Chartered Accoun­
British Columbia. That is why we are
memories lingered and they
tants of Ontario — presumably on
so anxious in making a favourable
racial grounds — and was quite de­ ached for the beauty of B.C.
impression.
jected for a while.
and the gentle climate. None
Sasaki dreamt of going to
The evacuation had not begrudged the missed oppor­
university, specializing in been a totally negative force tunities, the unearned de­
banking and international in the lives of the Nisei. Not grees, and the loss of their
trade, so he could participate only had it brought new op­ families' properties and
in building a better world after portunities in other provinces assets. They wanted to be
the war when all nations of Canada but it had also good Canadians, and they
would share in the prosperity broken the hold on the com­ were. They wanted to live up
that was certain to come. munity of the old Issei order. to Morrow's expectations.
Morrow strongly advised him The rigid hierarchy was bro­ And they did.

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The Momiji Complex Fund drive to benefit

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one of Canada's beautiful people ...we JCs

By FRED SUNAHARA
(The following is an excerpt
from F.A. Sunahara's address
to the Momiji Health Care
Society Building Project Fund
Drive Kick-off Dinner on Oct.
20, 1985 at the JCC Centre.)
I am sure all of us are here
today because of our concern
for our seniors — perhaps
some of us are here out of
concern for our own well­
being say 10 or 20 years from
now. If we were to see the
situation amongst our Ameri­
can counterparts in places
like Seattle, San Francisco,
Los Angeles and Chicago, it
will probably closely reflect
our position in about 10
years. I believe in general the
facilities for the Japanese
Canadian seniors are some­
what lagging behind our
American cousins. We hope
to correct that.
Many people have asked
members of our Society:
What we are all about? What
are we doing? What are our
plans? And what they can do
to help?
We are sometimes disap­
pointed that after 8 to 9 years
of service to our seniors, the
communication within this
rather small ethnic commu­
nity has been so minimal. Of
course it is our fault — we
have not properly communi­
cated. We hope that this oc­
casion and this fund drive
project will focus attention to
the urgent social needs in our
community — as far as the
care of our aging seniors are
concerned.
I would like to briefly relate
the background of seniors'
facilities in this region. Back
in 1958 an outstanding Issei,
Mr. Yasutaro Yamaga, with
the help of some responsible
friends, established what we
now know as Nipponia Home.
This retirement home, loca­
ted in Beamsville, Ontario,
has given and continues to
give valuable services to our
ethnic community.
The Momiji Health Care
Society was formed at the
instigation of the Toronto
JCCA in 1976. It was called
the Tor. JCCA Committee for
Elderly Care. Later, we re­
ceived a Provincial Charter as
a non-profit charitable orga­
nization. This society was
instructed by meeting of all
the major Japanese organiza­
tions to study the problem
related to the aging JC in On­
tario and make recommenda­
tions.
We commissioned Dr. To­
moko Makabe to carry out the
study. Her findings confirm­
ed that seniors' facilities are

needed in this region.
In order of priority the
needs were: (1) nursing or
extended care beds (like
Castleview), (2) residential
care (like Nipponia or Green­
view Lodge), and (3) seniors'
appartments.
It was later established
that the size of our ethnic
community justifies these
facilities. Unfortunately, be­
cause of the severe financial
restraint of the time, the
government would not ap­
prove the construction nor
operation of such a facility.
Instead after much negotia­
tions with the government
bodies we were able to get
a block of beds at Spencer
House, a retirement home,
(later we moved to Greenview
Lodge) and at Castleview
Wychwood Towers, an ex­
tended care facility. We have
over 70 residents at these
homes.
The idea of these arrange­
ments was that our residents
can enjoy the comfort and
security of being with fellow
Japanese and that our organi­
zation could provide a modi­
cum of care — such as bring­
ing in Japanese foods on a
regular basis and providing
some appropriate social, rec­
reational, cultural and reli­
gious services with which our
seniors are familiar. We also
felt that such an arrangement
would facilitate or justify
the employment of Japanese
speaking staff.
While our volunteers, along
with volunteers from the
various churches and other
organizations, have done a
marvelous job, we feel that
more should be done. While
these institutions have been
cooperative, our voluntary ac­
tivities are somewhat curtail­
ed for reasons I do not wish
to dwell on now. In any case
the present situation is far
better than having our se­
niors scattered in various nur­
sing or retirement homes
across the city. Our volunteer
services could not cope with
that.
If our proposed project can
provide various levels of care
in a single location, it would
be ideal. In the jargon of
social workers we would have
a continuum of care where
seniors can go from one level
of care to another without un­
due disruption of residency.
It is really sad to see a long
time resident, say at Nip­
ponia, who has called Nippo­
nia his home for many years
having to be moved into
heavier care facilities some­
where because Nipponia or

Greenview can no longer give mind saying that we have had ties.
So far every group contact­
healthy differences of opinion
the necessary care.
They go into surroundings among the Board members as ed assures us of their co­
where staff people are to where we ought to build — operation in the project —
strange, food is foreign, consideration of cost, near­ the clergies, the physicians,
familiar friends are gone, ness to shopping and other the dentists, the lawyers, the
their favorite recreational facilities, to public transpor­ builders, the landscapers,
past-time cannot be pursued tation, urban vs. suburban etc. have offered their ser­
and so on and so on. The resi­ sites, Scaroboro, Mississau­ vices.
The Counsel General of Ja­
dent has to suffer. In my mind ga, North York, Markham,
there is no doubt that a Japa­ Downtown — many sites have pan's office, the Shoko kai,
the churches and many other
nese oriented home, owned been taken into account.
Everyone has his or her organizations have voiced
and operated by the commu­
nity which can meet the needs bias and preferences — and their approval and support.
of our seniors, would be most for good reasons. We are Scores of volunteers have
presently seriously looking contributed their time and
desireable.
Many of the other ethnic into a site in North York — talent to the ongoing pro­
groups now have excellent and making a feasibility jects. It has been gratifying
seniors' complex: the Jews, study as to zoning problems, for our board to receive these
the Italians, the Greeks, the time lost for approvals, avail­ offers of support.
It is our ardent hope that
Latvians, the Chinese, just to ability of services, building
name a few. Yes, our commu­ and operational costs and so all of you will stand behind
Momiji Society selling this
nity is rather small compared on.
Our treasurer, Fred Sasaki, project to the community in
to others. But it has been
established that it can sup­ is a very convincing and per­ general and most important
suasive man when it comes help Charlie Ogaki, our fund
port it.
We have requested assist­ to financial feasibility of our drive chairman, and his com­
ance from the Provincial project. And we respect his mittee to push this campaign
Government for capital and opinion. Regardless of where to an overwhelming success.
All those wishing a bro­
operational grants. We are we build, we do need funds.
entitled to them. We have It makes it much easier to chure on the Momiji Htealth
shown willingness and the negotiate if we have a size­ Society can obtain oneTrom
capacity to provide volunteer able down-payment in the the counter of the gift shop at
services and generous gifts bank. Hence we are starting the Japanese Canadian Cul­
tural Centre.
such as meal and recreation off this fund drive.
All those wishing to donate,
It will undoubtedly be the
service to residents, but our
Board feels that unless our largest project of this nature should make out cheques to
ethnic community is also will­ undertaken by a Japanese the “Momiji Complex Fund”
ing to dig into its pockets Canadian community. Depen­ and send it to: Momiji Health
and be ready to have at least ding on the eventual site Care Society, 6 Roundwood
equity on the land, we will not selection it will probably at­ Court, Agincourt, Ontario,
be seriously considered by tract other community activi­ M1W 1Z2.
the government.
In this regard, our Society
made a valiant attempt to
receive permission from the
JCCC to use the centre pro­
perty for this community
project. But it was deemed
The Honorable Otto Jelinek
inappropriate because of the
Minister of State for Multiculturalism
Centre's other community
services priorities. I do not
t is a pleasure to wish happy
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wish to dwell on this, we have
holidays for everyone in this
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certain urgency to get on with
special season of rejoicing.
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the building project so that
his is a time when human nature
,
we can provide services while
appears
at
its
best:
when
families
our Issei are still with us.
celebrate together, and we renew old
There are now many Nisei
friendships . . . when we count our
who also seek these facili­
many blessings and, in doing so, try
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to share our bounty with those less
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fortunate.
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As far as the present status
pecial thanks and best wishes to
is concerned, last year we
everyone working with us
engaged the consultant firm
to advance multiculturalism.
of Roy Matsui and his asso­
Through multiculturalism we are all
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encouraged to maintain our heritage
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culture and to help ensure that
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ters. They have already pre­
everyone, regardless of origin, has an
sented us with a preliminary
equal opportunity in our great
report outlining the program
country.
and the type of facilities
or all Canadians, I wish a festive
which would be appropriate.
season of peace, joy and
Our board and the Matsui
happiness.
group are now attempting to
locate an appropriate site.
As you know the real estate
is terribly expensive in Tor­
onto, especially in the more
Otto Jelinek
desireable areas. I do not

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U.S. Sansei's impressions
of cross Canada tour
By DENISE HOSHIZAKI
of Los Angeles

This year I hit the jackpot,
vacation-wise. I was able to
visit both coasts of Canada,
east and west. Being from
Los Angeles, I find Canada a
fascinating country.
First, my niece suggested
taking a vacation together.
After thinking a little I came
up with the idea of visiting
Seattle since I had in the
back of my mind of eating sal­
mon cooked the old Indian
style at Tillicum Village on
Blake Island. I was in Seattle
five years ago but did not
have the chance to taste their
mouth-watering salmon.
When I wrote to my friend in
Vancouver, Canada, she sug­
gested that I visit her since
we would be so close to her.
Seattle was really chilly but
we were surprised when we
got off the ship, the Princess
Marguerite, that Victoria was
warm and humid (like Hawaii,
I thought). We did the usual
Butchart Gardens tour since
we were there for only one
day. Spring is the best time to
go there. We oooh'd and
aaah'd at the eye-popping
beauty of the variety of tulips
and rhododendrons.
Then on to Vancouver. It
was my fourth trip there but I
still find it irresistible. I guess
it. helps that I have a friend
there. She and I met in Kyoto,
Japan, 30 years ago. We have
kept up our friendshipthrough all these years. She
has visited me in Los Angeles
and I visited her up there
three times. We had eaten
salmon almost everyday up
until Vancouver so we felt
like Chinese and Japanese
food to which my friend took
us. Being raised on rice and
tea, I guess our body craves
those things. We could go
just so long with out Japanese
food and our bodies rebel.
After endurig a hot summer
in Los Angeles, October 6
rolled around and my friend
and I took the Tauck Tours to
the New England states, Que­
bec and Montreal. The tem­
perature was in the 30' s but I
was dressed for it so I wel­
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like a Californian so she
caught a cold which took a
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had a splattering of color on
the trees but in Quebec, es­
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pre's shrine, we saw a whole
wall of trees in brilliant reds
and yellows. I took a picture
of it and it came out just like
the real thing.
I had been in Quebec about
20 years ago but did not re­
member it to be so Frenchy. I
had to buy a French diction­
ary in order to talk to the
salesladies as well as to the
average citizen of the city.
When we asked where to buy
Maple Syrup, the saleslady
told us to go to the Pharmacie.
I guess she thought we
wanted Cough Syrup. Even
on the elevator, we pushed
number “I” to get to the lob­
by. We ended up at a loud par­
ty. Later we learned that we
were supposed to push the
button marked “Sortie.” And
we feld like a Chinese dinner
so kept asking about five pe­
destrians and everyone gave
us a bum steer. I finally went
inside a cleaning establish­
ment and the young lady
brought out a telephone
book. Even if it was upside
down to me, I also looked and
spotted the heading Chinois
under restaurants. I pointed
to it and she was able to lo­
cate Wong's which was right
at the next street.
At one rest stop, I saw a
lunch wagon which had all
French words for the menu. I
oointed to one and asked
“Quest'ce que c'est?” in my
limited French, and three
young men answered me in
rapid-fire French. Not under­
standing them, I answered
“No comprendo” in Spanish
and ran away, laughing to
myself.
All too soon our one week
came to an end and we had to
head for home. Vancouver
was so English and Quebec
was so French, but I like Can­
ada because the currency is
so similar to ours. In London
and France I had such a terri­
ble time with their money.
Years ago I was at Lake
Louise and Banff, too, so I
feel that, just like the good o'
USA, Canada has its cities
and beautiful forests, lakes,
etc., too. Until I visit Canada
again, I have my beautiful pic­
tures to look at and reminisce
about our pleasant trips to
our northern neighbor.

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The reluctant activist
author, Joy Kogawa
pass pointed me there. I was
Author Joy Kogawa curls
obedient.”
up in the fetal position on an
She talks about writing a
old coach in her parents'
east end home. She is ex­ book as a catharsis that
hausted. When the phone allows the author to move on
rings it draws a sigh and a to other things. “But I'm not
finished with this. It keeps
pause.
Her deaf mother sits silent­ growing. It's kind of like a
monster now. It won't let me
ly across from us as we talk.
There are signs of quiet faith go.”
Kogawa does have writing
throughout the cluttered liv­
projects in the works. Woman
ing room — the hands of
in the Woods, a book of poe­
Christ painted on a lacquered
section of a tree, a brass cru­ try about a woman in flight
cifix, a picture of the Kitsi- from her conventional subur­
lano church where Kogawa's ban life, is due out this fall.
And she has just completed a
father was once a minister.
The calls dealt with, Koga­ children's version of Obasan,
wa, 50, sits down ready to Naomi's Road, to be publish­
next year by Oxford
Joy Kogawa: ”1 wish some miracle would happen” cover familiar ground one ed
more time. She handles the University Press.
But while Kogawa feels the
spiny questions about the in­
SURREY DAYS . ■ ternment of Japanese-Cana- pull of new writing projects,
she also feels obliged to
dians dutifully, carefully.
The author of Obasan, the speak for those whose voices
have been lost in the intern­
award-winning 1982 novel
about a school teacher com­ ment debate. “I would like to
ers Co-op warehouse and attached
By MIKE HOSHIKO
run away, but I can't.”
to it was the office which had a tele­ ing to terms with her intern­
Practically all of the Japanese
Kogawa is aware that peo­
phone, a rare commodity since it had ment as a young girl, is a re­
farmers in Surrey and nearby mu­
ple are suffering because dif­
to be especially put in because the luctant advocate. She is by
nicipalities grew strawberries. The
nearest telephone line was on the nature a writer of dream-like
ficult memories are being re­
farms were rather small in acreage
Old Yale Road about two miles away.
vived. She says that some
stories, not an activist.
and, looking back, I wonder how
The office area doubled as a class­
But her book, published as Japanese Canadians want
they survived with one cash crop.
room for the Japanese language
And why were there so many straw­
the internment to be forgot­
school taught on weekends by the the Japanese-Canadian com­
berry growers? Perhaps it was be­
ten because they fear renew­
Priest of the Japanese Buddhist munity began to wrestle pub­
cause growing strawberries was so
Temple in New Westminster.
licly with the issue of redress ed discrimination. She says
very labor intensive and most of the
Harold (or Akira in those days)
for the internment, changed those hurt by the fight for
Issei had nothing going for them
Hirose was the bookkeeper for the
redress should join the proexcept the sweat of their brow and
Co-op. Albert Tsumura used to pick that. The Toronto-based au­
cess to make their voices
a start of a large family.
up berries in a truck for the Co-op. thor made the speeches, ral­
Lower Fraser valley was conducive
heard within the community.
Their farm was adjoining the Sassa lied support for a government
to strawberry growing because, un­
farm but it had to be approched from apology and played consci­
“The most important thing
like most commercial strawberry
Roebuck road. His father and mine ence to her community.
is community. The communi­
growing areas in the USA, irrigation
were old friends from way back.
The role is ironic, given ty is the thing that was deswas not required. Also, little or no
Albert was a hard worker, I think
troyed (by the internment),
competition came from the Hakujin
he got started by earning enough that a persistent theme in
farmers.
she says. “I don't know if it
money to put a down payment on Obasan is that of a woman
Today many strawberry farms are
a truck after working in a logging struggling between the faith
was irrevocably destroyed.
the “U-pick” variety or they are
camp. One of his brothers was killed and acceptance of her guar­
It's in pain right now.”
picked by migrant workers and many
in a logging accident.
But, she says, there's
illegal Mexicans are tolerated in the
The strawberry farmers, if their dian, modelled after Kogawa's
much evidence of a commu­
USA during the picking season.
children weren't old enough or if mother, and the activism of
My father first worked at the saw
nity renewal, partially be­
they didn't have enough of them, her aunt. “The telegrams and
mill and saved the down payment for
had to recruit pickers from the city. petitions are like scratchings
cause of the national associa­
a farm in Strawberry Hill where my
They were mostly Japanese house­ in the barnyard,” Kogawa
tion fighting for redress. “The
parents were living when I was born.
wives and teen age boys from Van­
wrote, “the evidence of much association is a symbol of a
My mother was taken to the Royal
couver.
group that was crushed and a
Columbian Hospital in New West­
Pickers lived with the families and activity, scaly claws hard at
minster riding on a wagon down that
paid room and board. The house­ work. But what good they do I . point of regrowth. It is impor­
steep Scott Road. Shortly after I
wives from the city usually put on do not know — those little
tant that that spark not be
was born my father experienced a
wide-brimmed hats with towel-like black typewritten words —
doused.”
cash flow problem and was told by
material draped around. I gathered
Kogawa emphasizes the
the mortgage holder, another Japa­ that they didn't want to get sun­ rain words, cloud droppings..
importance of an apology to
nese, that we had to pay or move.
tanned because they thought being
This made him mad and he felt that
light colored kept them more attrac­
Kogawa draws her arms . Japanese-Canadians, not just
it left him with no alternative, so he
tive.
tightly across her chest and on moral grounds, but be­
packed up the wagon with all the
I don't know how much they were explains that the story is also
cause of their values. “Within
family's worldly possessions. The
paid, but during the depression
the Japanese culture the
family left, leaving behind all the
nobody had much money. I am sure hers. “I watch things and I
sense of belonging, the
improvements and the strawberries
that many of the young fellows who struggle with them. I only be­
sense of community, is a hor­
that he had planted.
went strawberry picking can remem­ came public because a com­

Nikkei Strawberries

JJ

We moved in with his old friend
Mr. Sassa, who had about a 5-acre
strawberry farm on Peace Arch High­
way. This was a familiar place since
my father had owned the adjoining 5
acres but had sold them just before
he returned to Japan to marry my
mother about 1919.
All of the Japanese farmers living
in that area grew strawberries. Later,
some started to raise chickens. It
was a short time later that my father
borrowed money to buy the farm
which later was sold by the custo­
dian. It was located about a mile
south of Walleys Corner on the
Trans-Canada highway on the south­
west corner of Hjorth Road.
Located on the east side of the
Sandell Road, almost at Town Line
Road, was the “Surrey Berry Hall”.
It really was the Surrey Berry Grow­

ber that experience. Larger berry
growers even had bunk houses for
their pickers. We used to hear that
some farmers provided very mono­
tonous and cheap board and the
word got around so nobody would
go there to work.
Growing strawberries was a backbreaking labor intensive work. Straw­
berries were planted in rows wide
enough for a horse-drawn cultivator
to go through. As I got old enough
I did some cultivating. I would have
to drive the horse while Archie Mutch
held on to the cultivator. His father
supplied the horse and Archie. I see
that today a road is named after that
family. I don't know what ever hap­
pened to him. But we had to fight the
weeds constantly by hoeing around

(Cont. on page 16)

rifically important thing.
Also, the sense of shame is a
horrifically important concept.
In that culture people kill
themselves if they are made
to feel ashamed.
“People want to feel better
about the whole thing. They
want to feel proud and digni­
fied. But unless there is an
admission of wrong, the vic­
tim is still seen to be wrong ..
Kogawa thinks a formal
apology won't satisfy the Ja­
panese community when it
approaches the federal gov­
ernment again. Only some
form of compensation —
either individual payouts or
funding for projects such as
facilities for the aged — and
a review of laws that would
still permit the internment
will put the issue to rest, she
says.
For Kogawa, there are still
times when she cherishes
the role that Obasan has
brought her. In October she
read from the novel in New
Denver, B.C., near the town of
Slocan where she was first in­
terned. “There' s a small rem­
nant of people ‘(internees) up
there. I read a section about
the last supper just before
they all dispersed. It was very
special.” She smiles and
laughs gently at the memory.
There Kogawa met a child­
hood friend who plays an im­
portant role in the children's
version of Obasan. And she
saw the empty, spartan cabin
where she lived during the
war, her family's comfortable
South Vancouver home which
was taken from them.
Kogawa says her parents
have set an example that's
helped her to persevere as
she walks the line between
the public world of the advo­
cate and the private world of
the writer.
And there is no clear deci­
sion about how she will cope
with the dual life she has led.
Kogawa raises her palms to­
ward an imaginary sky and
smiles. “I wish some miracle
would happen.”

— Charles Campbell

Toast to Japan Govt, honor winners
TORONTO. — Three Ontario resident win­
ners of Japanese Government awards
and the Consul General toast each other
at presentations held on Nov. 29th. (Left to
right) Mr. Takeo Nakano (6th class Order of
Sacred Treasure), Consul General Hlraku
Oka, Mr. Frank Hayashi (5th Class Order of
Rising Sun), and Mr. Shinkuro Kozai (6th
Class Order of Rising Sun).

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(Cont. from page 15)
me plants.
My mother was hoeing all the time
when she was not tending the chick­
ens but I didn't hoe because I used
to get bad nosebleeds and mother
thought getting out in the sun would
precipitate it.
The strawberry plants grew run­
ners that had to be picked off by
hand. Wheat straw mulch had to be
put around the plants to keep them
warm and also to keep the berries
clean. First year after planting they
were not allowed to bear fruit so
each flower had to be picked off by
hand. And, of course, all this re­
quired stooping over constantly.
The fruit is delicate and had to
be picked carefully to avoid bruising
them. Then they had to be repacked
so that they looked nice with all
the big berries on top. This was my
job when I got old enough to help.
Packers had to get them all finished
before the truck came to pick the
crates. It was a boring job and I
didn't even have a radio to listen
and, later, when we had a radio it
was not portable; But it was the
strawberry money that bought the
radio in 1934 when we had an espe­
cially good crop.
Strawberries grow best in moist,
fertile soil, but most Surrey berry
farms were full of stones and rock.
This provided another kind of labor
intensive work and, sometime^
punishment. If the kids were bad
they were given buckets and sent to
pick up stones and rocks when they
wanted to play.
I have forgotten the names of the
strawberries that we used to grow ex­
cept “overbearing” and everybody
that I asked couldn't remember or
didn 't want to.
I still like to eat strawberries but
I certainly do not go to a “U-Pick”
place.
In a recent issue of “Recipes of
British Columbia” there is a recipe
for “Saanich Strawberry Shortcake”
which I would like to try. The book
says strawberries are grown by
“gentlemen farmers” not the hard
working Issei of the pre-evacuat ion
days. I doubt that any Japanese im­
migrant from Japan today would try
growing strawberries in spite of the
recent Japanese TV movie “Oregon”
showing such a farmer in this jet age.

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The Issei Are Bent
The Issei Are Bent
By ROLAND M. KAWANO
For: Ken Shiomi

The Issei are bent for they know
That Japan held no future for them;
Who stood with their feet In the rice-fields,
Steadying the upper classes on their backs,
All the while sinking deeper.
The Issei are bent for they were asked
To be twice born, not thrice;
Once on leaving the old land for the Golden country,
Once when the Golden country impounded them.
But the thought of being born once more,
To fight the government for the gold deprived them ...

The Issei are bent for the war in heaven
Has drawn down to the sons and daughters;
And there is no peace in the human spirit,
Except in escape from duty,
And In the making of words there is no end.
The Issei are bent out of long years
Of doing the same never-ending task
Of portraying Meiji-era values and Ideas
To nikkei and shin issei who don't mask
Their feelings of indifference and ennui.

And the Issei are bent, for they see
That the yonsei are the first generation
Who have English-speaking grandmas,
To have come so far, and to speak
Only to be misunderstood and misheard.

The Issei are bent for now they reckon
That it is better to go to the grave, and then
To ask some questions of the compassionate one;
Who, amidst the lotus leaves smiles at their fate,
A carmelizing smile that turns our desires
Into bitter sweet memories of nostalgia.
The Issei are bent for now they realize,
That perhaps our futures are not
Indeed in such good hands. But they rest assured
That they provided the bridge from the old country,
And the further the young ones go, the less they remember
That such a bridge ever existed.

The Issei are bent, and face the earth;
They remember to see the worn, tired feet;
They smell the old earth from whence they sprang,
And they wait with longing to return,
Giving thanks for the fleeting memory of joy,
Enjoying the present moment, sacrament of hope.

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Why would a Sansei
study Japanese?
By RAYMOND NAKAMURA
The substance of this article is based on a speech I wrote in
Japanese for the Ontario Japanese Speech contest at the end
of May. I decided to submit this in English for two reasons:
first, I think the subject really has more relevance to people
who do not speak Japanese than to those who do; and sec­
ondly, because even after studying Japanese for four years at
university, trying to express what I really mean in Japanese
resembles an attempt at embroidery wearing hockey gloves.

Why study Japanese? For to learn.
After the trip, I tried writing
some, it is a means for cash­
ing in on Japan's increasing in Japanese to some of my
trade involvement with Can­ new acquaintances, but I
ada; others may have gotten needed my mother's help.
excited about Japanese cul­ Naturally this put something
ture after watching Shogun of a damper on the subject
on television; and still others matter of my letters. I real­
would like to know what it ized that only if I had a better
is they have been eating in grasp of Japanese could I
those trendy sushi bars. ever write about more than
These are fine answers for what the weather was like
many people, but I think that and what I studied at school.
having “Japanese blood” As well, since I didn't com­
changes the circumstances pletely understand their let­
ters, I was afraid that they ac­
and motivations somewhat.
I call myself a Japanese tually expected me to marry
Canadian, but in my mind, the them or something. I resolved
emphasis is on the “Cana­ to improve my understanding
dian” part. This perhaps and conquer my uncertainty.
typifies many Sansei who Tragically, though my Japan­
generally know little more ese has since improved, no
Japanese than benjo and one has written back lately. I
suspect they may have got­
gohan.
My case is a bit different, ten married.
Although I had found my
however, because I know
that the word benjo is in fact motivation, I had not found
a rather vulgar term while on the means to reach my goal.
a good day I can even write Ironically, it was hockey, the
gohan in kanji (those ridicu­ same thing which earlier had
lously cumbersome charact­ drawn me from Japanese
ers which for some reason school, which allowed me to
the Japanese adopted from return to Japan.
In February 1982 during my
the Chinese, in the same way
they have adopted microchip first year of university, I hap­
pened to be fortunate enough
technology from the West).
My relationship with the to be part of the Team Sansei
Japanese language stretches hockey team organized to
back to my childhood when, play some exhibition games
as a victim of infallible paren­ in Japan for two weeks. I re­
tal wisdom, I was forced to go alized that to get the most out
to Japanese school on Satur­ of the trip I ought to know
day mornings. In fairness to some Japanese, so I enrolled
my parents I must admit that in the first year course even
they allowed me the grace of though my area of speciali­
playing hockey instead of go­ zation was zoology.
Having the vivid memories
ing to school when I had a
game in the morning. Need­ of my near total inadequacy
less to say, I took full advan­ during my first trip to Japan,
tage of this lenience as often I could compare how much I
had learned in less than a half
as I could.
Though I “graduated” with a year. The excitement of us­
only the slightest dent in my ing my newly acquired know­
ignorance of Japanese, it ledge inspired me to learn
would not be fair to blame the more. Besides this, taking
school. -After all, having no Japanese at “real school”
motivation whatsoever to
learn, nothing short of torture
could have forced any know­
ledge into my thick skull.
Still, the school ultimately
had a profound effect on the
path I have travelled thus far
by arranging a trip to Japan
in which I took part, along
with my family. After four
Season's
weeks of travelling around
Greetings
that little island meeting
Mrs. Tsune Teramoto
relatives I never knew I had
and Family
and attempting to converse
Huttonville, Ont. LOJ 1B0
with some cute Japanese
girls, I found my motivation 4

meant doing some work and
for the first time I was actual­
ly passing tests in Japanese.
I couldn't believe it.
Beginning to understand
what kanji means is like
unlocking a code, opening a
door to another world. I can
now get some idea of what
the signs in Chinatown say.
Still, no one should get the
impression that I have sud­
denly become a “born-again
Japanese”. Indeed, the Japa­
nese courses I have taken at
the University of Toronto
have consistently helped
lower my Grade Point Aver­
age.
I have often questioned my
sanity for pursuing a course
which demands more work
than most of the science
courses I have taken. Perhaps
I'm doing Jt to test my
character. Maybe it will put
hair on my chest, although
come to think of it, that's not
a very Japanese desire.
Perhaps more important
than testing my character, I
think that studying Japanese
will help me come to a better
understanding of my charac­
ter.
In Canada, the land of the
fatuously thoughtful, where
multiculturalism is actually
promoted by the government,
people seem to have devel­
oped the attitude that they
should respect your back­
ground whether or not you in
fact have one. They think that
it is wonderful for you to
be living in this wonderful
country, but really, what na­
tionality are you? People
have expected me to speak
Japanese and possess fasci­
nating insights into the mys­
tique of Japanese culture.
I realized that regardless of
how I might think of myself,
other people initially perceive
(Cont. on page 18)
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Huttonville, Ont., we pub­
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Nisei Lady executive guides English language
CBC National Radio as Vice President
By DENNY BOYD

Vice-President of CBC Radio English, Margaret Lyons

Author of play on JC's astounded by

complacent Nikkei towards evacuation
WINNIPEG. — Many people
would like to write off the in­
ternment of thousands of Japanese-Canadians in deten­
tion camps during the Second
World War as a shameful
footnote in Canadian history.

Some of those people in­
clude the victims themselves.
“They want to forget,” said
Sharon Stearns, author of a
new play about the intern­
ment.

Miki said he found the play
well written and Stearns's
observations accurate.

tle because of this quiet
grace, displayed by a sup­
posed ruthless enemy.

“Those feelings are very
Enemy Graces is a family
common,” Miki said in an in­ drama seen through the eyes
terview from his home after of an 18-year-old Canadianattending the premiere. “I born woman of Japanese des­
thought it (the play) reflected cent who believes herself a
the differences and attitudes citizen of this country, but is
of the two generations very viewed by her countrymen as
well.”
someone to be feared.

Miki, who is leading a cam­
paign to get the federal gov­
ernment to address the issue
of a formal apology and com­
pensation for the internment
program, said the anguish of
internment fractured many
Japanese-Canadian families.

The play, set in 1943, fea­
tures Jill Nakamoto and her
parents who are among 920
Japanese-Canadians evacu­
ated to Sandon — a ghost
town deep in the B.C. interior
northeast of Kamloops.

In doing research for Enemy
Graces, Stearns said she was
astounded at the complacent
attitude some older Japanese-Canadians had towards
having been uprooted from
their West Coast homes and
Stearns, a former actress
“In Japanese families the who turned to full-time wri­
resettled in remote inland
father is a very respected per­ ting five years ago, asked
areas.
son,” Miki said. “Suddenly he Miki to proof her script for ac­
“Some said it was a good has no job, things are bad and curacies.
thing they were put into pri­ he loses stature with his fam­
Although she believes the
son camps all across Canada ily and withdraws as an effec­
internment to be a terrible
because it helped them assi­ tive parent.
“The effects are still being wrongdoing, Stearns says
milate into Canadian culture.
felt and people are very cau­ she did not produce the play
That astounds me.”
“They say it with such con­ tious about speaking up,” as part of the campaign for
compensation.
viction that it makes sense, Miki said.
“I hope people will get a
During her research, Stearns
but at what a price. It is the
second generation, their chil­ interviewed Canadian citi­ sense that an injustice has
dren, who don't want to for­ zens who were forced to sell been dealt to the Japanese
get and are seeking redress; off most of their property and people, but they should be
it is they who talk with bitter­ live out the war in remote de­ free to draw their own conclu­
sions about what should be
tention camps.
ness.”
Stearns said she was struck done about it.”
The B.C. playwright's con­
Enemy Graces opened at
cern is mirrored by Art Miki, by the general acquiescence
the Winnipeg-based president of the Japanese-Canadians Winnipeg's Prairie Theatre
of the National Association who quietly accepted their Exchange recently.
— Winnipeg Free Press
fate. She chose the play's ti­
of Japanese Canadians.

Margaret Lyons marches to the
tune of many drums.
As the vice-president of CBC na­
tional radio, English division, she is
bound by the stern mandate of the
CBC, as set out in the Broadcast Act
of 1968.
She is also guided by a series of in­
ternal CBC documents because the
CBC, as a crown corporation, has
arm's-length independence of the
government that finances it.
But in her selection of CBC pro­
gramming and program personali­
ties, Lyons appears to be motivated
by a relentless populist thrust that is
in curious contradiction to her up­
bringing.
A Toronto newspaper critic has
caller her “the woman who took over
the best all-brow radio service west
of the BBC and turned it into the Bur­
ger Queen of Public Broadcasting.”
The executive who began, a mas­
sive overhaul of CBC radio this fall,
with 45 hours of new programming in
the current season, is plump, studi­
ous-looking and was born on a farm
in Mission, B.C.
Lyons was interned as a JapaneseCanadian during the Second World
War.
She earned a degree in economics
at McMaster University, worked for
the BBC in England and was encour­
aged to return to Canada by former
prime minister Lester Pearson.
She has spent 24 years with the
BBC and CBC radio as a programmer
in current affairs and variety pro­
gramming.
She had a significant hand in intro­
ducing such thoughtful public affairs
programs as As It Happens (which
made a star of Barbara Frum) and
Sunday Morning. She is also respon­
sible for such middle-brow programs
as The Radio Show (which the cor­
poration's own Radio Guide des­
cribes as “A live, off-the-wall enter­
tainment magazine touching bases
coast to coast with the latest news
from the world of entertainment, cov­
erage of sports events, and hit-andrun interviews with people making
the news, the music, the movies and
the opinions of the week”) and Day
Shift (Radio Guide — “A light look at
life in the 1980s. Profiles of high
achievers in Canadian business and
the arts: a magazine column (what's
new or changing in magazines); infor­
mation and discussion about food,
fashion, high technology, legal
issues, social trends, leisure, travel,
and everyday concerns”).
If this apparent audience target
shift from the arts-culture minority to
the croissant crowd seems drastic, it
is precisely what Margaret Lyons
feels the CBC needs.
As far back as 1972, Lyons per­
ceived that the CBC was stagnating
in elitism. She said: “I want the
possibility of interesting everybody
in all aspects of our culture. I feel the
world ... is getting culturally Balkanized. In music, the radio environment
may have caused this.
“If you only listen to what you like,
you don't have to know what other
people are interested in. I don't think
middle-aged people, old people, cul­
tivated people, should shut them­
selves off in their fortresses, and I
don't think the CBC should encour­
age them to do it, either.”
On using increasing amounts of
rock and roll music on CBC, Lyons
has said, “If the majority of young
people of the country are listening to
this kind of music, we can't just dis­
miss it. It's our job to investigate
and serve that taste. There's a real
danger if we turn our backs on mass
culture.”

That notion supersedes Lyons.
She is merely echoing one aspect of
the confidential CBC English Radio
Report of 1970, a self-examination
conducted by a pair of young CBC
turks named Peter Meggs and Doug­
las Ward. The Ward-Meggs report in­
dicated the CBC was drowning in eli­
tism and suggested some populist,
theories. One curious statement
said, “Are bill-boards, acid rock, the
most feeble television serials, the
country and western hit parade, or
the prose style of Time Magazine
less important art forms in Canadian
Society than those of the ‘fine arts’?
We'd be fools to think they were.”

Lyons has powerful convictions
about the functions of AM and FM
radio and of the quirks of listeners.
Whereas the CBC played classical
music on its mono (AM) and stereo
(FM) networks, night and day, Lyons
says: “It took us a long time to con­
vince our critics that nighttime isn't
prime time for radio. The stereo net­
work is obviously more suited for
music, so we want to put more there.
Music on mono is a contradiction.
We are putting more talk there, but
talk of a different kind.”

Nor is she ever going to overesti­
mate the patience or the intelligence
of her listeners. “The development of
an idea can't take more than five
minutes, and then you have to drop
something in every five minutes to
raise the signal, so the listener pays
attention,” she says.

She is aware that her decisions will
be watched and challenged by the
Canadian listening public. “People
wouldn't get so upset if we weren't
such a big part of their lives. Not that
we set out to upset anyone. But we'd
be worried if no one complained,”
she adds.

Kimura Parker
in Toronto
Jan. 8, 9, & 11

Jon Kimura Parker
TORONTO. — Pianist Jon
Kimura Parker will be appear­
ing at Toronto's Roy Thomp­
son Hall on January 8, 9, and
11th. He will be accompanied
by the Canadian Electronic
Ensemble and the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra under
the direction of Andrew
Davis.
Pianist Kimura Parker was
the 1984 gold medal winner at
the prestigious Leeds Inter­
national Piano Competition
in England.

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