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Hastings Park /PNE Redevelopment Plan Meeting

To Community Members: Please come to a community meeting about the Hastings Park /PNE Redevelopment Plan on Monday, October 18 at 7PM at Tonari Gumi, 511 Broadway. This meeting is to discuss Japanese Canadian historical, cultural and commemorative presentations in…

Aoki Legacy Fund

Harry Hiro-o Aoki is one of the most unique figures in Canadian culture. As a musician, scholar, and activist, he has devoted his life to using music to promote cross-cultural understanding. Born in Cumberland, BC in 1931, his early life…

On clothing and choosing

Living in a house with three women (no, I’m not a polygamist, two of them are my daughters—you’ve been watching too much reality TV), I have long had ambivalent feelings regarding my gender and our relationship to clothes. On the…

Kizuna: Connecting through Generations

On September 22, 2000, the National Nikkei Heritage Centre opened at Nikkei Place, the culmination of a longtime dream for many in the Canadian Nikkei community. The Centre, like the New Sakura-so seniors residence that had already opened in May,…

Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre Receives National Historic Site Status

On July 31, the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre in New Denver, BC, was officially given National Historic Site status, a process that was several years in the making. A public ceremony, hosted by the Kyowakai Society and partly funded by…

Hastings Park/PNE Master Plan

Over the spring and summer of 2010, information about the Hastings Park/PNE Master Plan has been presented at public consultation and information-sharing events within the City of Vancouver. A final draft of the Plan will be presented for approval to…

Go Fish

In the 2007 book, Nikkei Fishermen on the BC Coast, Their Biographies and Photographs (Harbour Publishing), over 3600 Nikkei fishermen are listed, going back to the late 1800s. How many women are on that list? Exactly one. There are admittedly, more women involved in recreational fishing, but they are still vastly outnumbered by the men. Happily, my wife Amy is one of those exceptions to the rule. She grew up in a family of recreational fishermen and can not only catch fish with the best of them, she can clean and filet them with a surgeon’s precision, all good qualities in a mate, as far as I’m concerned.

Justin & Lea Ault . . . eat, play, live: raising a family @ the interracial divide

We figured, if they were going to be going to a preschool for a couple years before they started kindergarten, then why not get some language benefit out of it. I wouldn’t have been unhappy if they took Mandarin even. It’s not like it’s an effort for the kids. I know that I got a real economic boost in my life from having a second language. While I was going to UBC, I worked as a bellman at the Waterfront Centre Hotel. I would have never got that job if I didn’t speak the basic Japanese I did at the time—there were just too many other nice, personable guys out there. It was a great job and I’d never have got it if I didn’t have that language component.

Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre Receives National Historic Site Designation

On Saturday, July 31, 2010, a ceremony will be held at the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre in New Denver to mark its official designation as National Historic Site. The event, which is open to the public, will run over the…

Commemorative ceremony for avalanche victims at Mountain View Cemetery August 12

On November 7, 1885, the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed, as the Last Spike was driven home in Craigellachie, not far from Revelstoke, British Columbia. In the process of building and maintaining this ribbon of steel that created a corridor…

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