Research Catalog

Title

Steveston recollected : a Japanese-Canadian history / edited by Daphne Marlatt.

Publication

Victoria, B.C. : [Provincial Archives of British Columbia], 1975.

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Details

Additional Authors

Marlatt, Daphne

Description

xvi, 104 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Japanese > Steveston > Social life and customs
• Steveston (B.C.) > Social life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 103-104.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A note on the transcripts -- The central figures interviewed -- Canadian Pacific Camp -- Fishing in the old days -- An early meeting -- Boat boss to house boss: Asamatsu Murakami : house builder -- Living in cannery houses -- Finding a bridge : Umanosuke and Moto Suzuki : staying on -- Work and money : Hideo Kokubo : Nisei fisherman -- Dantai : its origin, its function -- strikes -- a Japanese account of the strike of 1900 -- The Japanese fisherman's hospital -- Early Steveston -- Kumiai: a co-op -- Ties with Japan -- Rokuhei Konishi : fisherman-therapist -- Kyokai : the Japanese Fishermen's Association -- Restriction on fishing licences -- Racism -- Seizure of Japanese boats -- Evacuation and internment camps -- Return to Steveston -- Unosuke Sakamoto : making good -- Fishing today -- Political views: Rintaro Hayashi : Issei -- The Japanese community -- Down Cannery Channel -- Postscript -- Appendix A. The process of Dekasegi -- Appendix B. Japanese immigration to Canada, 1906-26 -- Appendix C. The Japanese population of Steveston by occupation, 1934 -- Appendix D. Restrictions on fishing licences -- Maya on Steveston.

LCCN

^^^77352076^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library