Immigration Faux Pas in Canada
Manzo Nagano is credited with being the first Japanese settler in Canada in 1877, though he was not the first to come to BC....
Chuck Tasaka
Nisei: Nikkei connection to McLean Mill
Did you know that there was a very small settlement of Japanese Canadians at the McLean Mill in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in...
Mio-Steveston Fishermen Dialect
Whenever you hear of Mio, a poor, small fishing village south-east of Osaka in Wakayama-ken, the name ‘Amerika Mura’ comes to mind. To the...
NISEI: THE GAMES WE PLAYED
Nisei growing up on Powell Streets in the 30s didn’t have that many toys so they had to improvise. Some boys picked chestnuts off...
Nisei : Summer Jobs
“What? I have to travel 400 km to work all summer? I will call family services!” No, no, that didn’t come out of the...
Nisei: Internment Camp Life
Greenwood was the first ‘internment centre’ and Tashme was the last. In-between, there were Lemon Creek, Popoff, Bay Farm, New Denver, Rosebery, Sandon and...
You-mo? Me-mo!: Nisei Language and Dialect
I don’t have a PhD in linguistics but I hope that a budding linguist major will get interested in this topic. In Hawaii, the...
THE NISEI HEP CATS
“The day the music died,” from the song American Pie by Don McLean, referred to February 3, 1959, the days Buddy Holly, Richie Valens...
Nisei Courtship: Hubba, Hubba, Shoo, Shoo!
Dion and the Belmonts made the doo wop song famous with Teenagers in Love. We could call this segment ‘Nisei-gers in Love’. Was this...
Cumberland Chow Mein, Denbazuke, Karinto? It’s Nisei Food!
How can you tell a Nisei by looking at the food they eat? Have you heard of Cumberland chow mein, denbazuke, or karinto? In...
How Can You Tell a Nisei?
Issei, Nisei, I Say, You Say The Bulletin is pleased to introduce a new column by Nanaimo-based historian, researcher and author Chuck Tasaka. Having...
