08.10 October 08 Archive

  • To help recognize the historic significance of Cumberland’s other Japanese community of No. 5 Road, there are plans to erect a storyboard in the vicinity of former No. 5 Japanese Townsite that will display photographic images and brief stories by former No. 5 residents of life in the community prior to their forced evacuation during World War II. Funds are available for construction of the storyboard. Such storyboards have been erected elsewhere in the Village of Cumberland to inform visitors of life in the former No. 1 Japanese Townsite and the once thriving Chinatown.

    Keeping History Alive

    Posted on October 4, 2008 | No Comments
    To help recognize the historic significance of Cumberland’s other Japanese community of No. 5 Road, there are plans to erect a storyboard in the vicinity of former No. 5 Japanese Townsite that will display photographic images and brief stories by former No. 5 residents of life in the community prior to their forced evacuation during World War II. Funds are available for construction of the storyboard. Such storyboards have been erected elsewhere in the Village of Cumberland to inform visitors of life in the former No. 1 Japanese Townsite and the once thriving Chinatown.

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  • Yukiko and Toni Onley 1980. Photo by Iwao Matsuo. When iconic Canadian artist Toni Onley died in a plane crash on February 29, 2004, he left behind a legacy of...

    Love, Toni xox

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    Yukiko and Toni Onley 1980. Photo by Iwao Matsuo. When iconic Canadian artist Toni Onley died in a plane crash on February 29, 2004, he left behind a legacy of...

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  • Titled Re(a)ddressed: I am (Japanese) Canadian, the aim of this workshop was to open a dialogue between Japanese Canadian youth surrounding the present and possible futures of identity and ethnicity in Canada. Very suited to these topics was the collaboration of award-winning Canadian independent animation filmmaker, writer and artist, Jeff Chiba Stearns.

    Re(a)ddressed

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    Titled Re(a)ddressed: I am (Japanese) Canadian, the aim of this workshop was to open a dialogue between Japanese Canadian youth surrounding the present and possible futures of identity and ethnicity in Canada. Very suited to these topics was the collaboration of award-winning Canadian independent animation filmmaker, writer and artist, Jeff Chiba Stearns.

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  • by Tsuneharu Gonnami On February 6-8, 2008, Professor Atsuhiko Wada of Waseda University’s School of Education visited UBC to conduct research on Japanese Collections in Canada. Professor Wada, who won...

    Professor Atsuhiko Wada’s Visit to UBC Libraries

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    by Tsuneharu Gonnami On February 6-8, 2008, Professor Atsuhiko Wada of Waseda University’s School of Education visited UBC to conduct research on Japanese Collections in Canada. Professor Wada, who won...

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  • SFU has announced that Hiromi Goto will be Writer-in-Residence from September 2008 to May 2009. Hiromi is an important and insurgent voice in Canadian literature, with great depth of experience...

    Hiromi Goto New SFU Writer-in-Residence

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    SFU has announced that Hiromi Goto will be Writer-in-Residence from September 2008 to May 2009. Hiromi is an important and insurgent voice in Canadian literature, with great depth of experience...

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  • Once in a while, one comes across a moving story about people who achieved remarkable things with great ideas. As one gets older and such discoveries become rare, one appreciates...

    Guidepost to Life’s Journey : an Unexpected Discovery

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    Once in a while, one comes across a moving story about people who achieved remarkable things with great ideas. As one gets older and such discoveries become rare, one appreciates...

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  • What fantastic September weather we have had, making up for the miserable August. Here’s hoping for more Indian Summer to come! I had a Kabucha Salad recipe submitted by Joyce...

    KABUCHA SALAD

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    What fantastic September weather we have had, making up for the miserable August. Here’s hoping for more Indian Summer to come! I had a Kabucha Salad recipe submitted by Joyce...

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  • Hi everyone! The GVJCCA and NAJC would like to thank the Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall, Nikkei Place, Alan Emmott Centre, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, City of Burnaby,...

    President’s Message

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    Hi everyone! The GVJCCA and NAJC would like to thank the Vancouver Japanese Language School & Japanese Hall, Nikkei Place, Alan Emmott Centre, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, City of Burnaby,...

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  • It is one thing to go back over one’s own memories—events that shaped us, for better or for worse. But what is it that drives us to go back over events that we were not part of, that happened, in many cases, before we were even born? What is it that moves us to ruminate on the past? I suppose you could quote George Santayana, who famously said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

    On the nature of memory and remembering

    Posted on October 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
    It is one thing to go back over one’s own memories—events that shaped us, for better or for worse. But what is it that drives us to go back over events that we were not part of, that happened, in many cases, before we were even born? What is it that moves us to ruminate on the past? I suppose you could quote George Santayana, who famously said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

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  • It is early evening in late May as my husband and I roll off the ferry at Nanaimo and head north under a clear blue sky to the Village of Cumberland on Vancouver Island. Alongside the highway grow streams of golden broom and purple lupin that light up the earthy tones of the Comox Valley landscape. We are on our way to attend the official commemoration of Cumberland’s Japanese Cemetery as a historical landmark.

    Cumberland Memories

    Posted on October 4, 2008 | 2 Comments
    It is early evening in late May as my husband and I roll off the ferry at Nanaimo and head north under a clear blue sky to the Village of Cumberland on Vancouver Island. Alongside the highway grow streams of golden broom and purple lupin that light up the earthy tones of the Comox Valley landscape. We are on our way to attend the official commemoration of Cumberland’s Japanese Cemetery as a historical landmark.

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