Vol. 6, No. 2 Summer, 2001

Table of Contents

• Pp. 1-4 “Japanese Charcoal Pit Kilns on the Gulf Islands: an untold story of early BC and Japanese-Canadian history” by Stephen Nemtin
• Pp. 4-5 “A Family History” by Patricia Tanaka on Bunjiro Sakon who arrived in Canada in 1900, around 1930, invented a method for growing rhubarb in hothouses in the winter (for which he received an award of merit from the Japanese Industry Assn.), and the hardships of internment as endured by his descendents..
• Pp. 5-6 “Japanese Smelt Fishers of Point Grey” by Terry Slack
• Pp. 6-9 “Ucluelet: as it was before 1942” by Larry S. Maekawa
• Page 9 “Japanese Canadian National Museum Open House” by Frank Kamiya
• Pp. 9-10 “A Day of Remembrance” by Carl Yokota on the 5th annual Fishermen’s Memorial Service, April 28, 2000 in Steveston’s Garry Point Park.
• Pp. 10-11 “A Guidebook to Living in Canada – 1906 style” by Sakuya Nishimura and Susan Michi Sirovyak on a 554 page guide in Japanese to living in Anglophone North America and its importance to a 1922 immigrant.
• Page 12 Request for information about a Japanese Canadian boxer in the late 1940’s named Katsumi Morioka. Donors, Members.

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