John Endo Greenaway

On the afternoon of February 12, 2009, the spirit of the Issei once again radiated throughout Vancouver’s Oppenheimer Park. Nearly 32 years have passed since a group of Issei seniors planted sakura trees in the Park. A now healthy and…

Sensation…. Memories…. Skin and bones…. In 1980, Koichi Tamano gave a performance at the Robson Street Media Centre and burned an imprint in my brain that resonates to this day.

On April 16, 1942, all Japanese Canadians in the Comox Valley suddenly vanished. A total of 586 Japanese Canadians, including women, children and seniors, left from the Union Bay wharf on board the SS Prince George for Vancouver, bound for…

Sometime during the day on March 4th, a snow avalanche descended Cheops Mountain into the valley at the Summit of Rogers Pass. It covered the CPR railway. A crew of men and a locomotive-driven snow blower were dispatched to clear the tracks. The men would clear the debris from the snow and the snow blower would move in to blow the snow off of the tracks. As the men struggled through the night to clear the first snow slide, a second avalanche descended from the opposite side of the valley and hit the railway at the point where the men were working.

When he turned to research and writing, our family was loaded into the car on a long road trip across the country. We stopped in small towns with names like Slocan and New Denver, which were steeped in memory for him. But for us kids -- we just shrugged our shoulders with impatience . . . not able to see the import or history.

By Alex Ross My grandpa, Roy Ito, passed away in 1999 when I was just ten. So I knew him as a kid knew a grandpa. Some of my memories include swimming in my grandparents’ backyard pool—when grandpa went swimming…

The Ito family donated their father's archive with an award for someone to do research and to create a public presentation of Roy Ito's work. I was the recipient of this award proposing an online interactive project that would house three new works in response to an item within his archive.

First of all let me say that what surprised me most about Roy Ito’s diary was its candor and contemporariness. It is full of emotion and humor. At the same time it feels as though it was written for posterity,…