Links
Online
Witness to Loss: the Diary of Kishizo Kimura
Companion website to the book of the same name that also presents the entire English translation of an unpublished memoir by Kimura, along with the original Japanese text
Telling a Difficult Past: Kishizo Kimura’s Memoir of Entanglement in Racist Policy
In-depth article by Jordan Stanger-Ross published in “BC Studies”, 181 (Spring 2014) which led to the book Witness to Loss
Kishizo Kimura Fonds – Nikkei National Museum
The fonds consists of seven series of material assembled by Kishizo Kimura over the course of his life. It consists of Kimura’s personal five year agenda (1941 -1945) and documents contained within, his memoirs, his time with the Canada Salted Herring Export sales company and the BC Salted salmon Export Sales Company, his experience on the Japanese Fishing Boat Disposition Committee (JFVDC) in 1942 and the sale of fishing boats owned by Japanese Canadians, his time in 1943 on the Advisory Committee for the disposition of Japanese-owned properties that were being held by the Custodian, his life after his time on the Advisory Committee for the Disposal of Japanese Owned Properties (1944-), and finally, his digitized family photographs.
Nikkei Stories of Steveston: Boat Builders – Greg Masuda
Video from the website Nikkei Stories. The website presents short films about the people, places, events, and cultural life of the Japanese Canadian communities of Powell Street and Steveston, British Columbia.
Britannia Shipyards Exhibit about the skills and techniques of wooden boat builders in Steveston, including the stories of the Kishi family of Richmond
Soyokaze – Museum at Campbell River
The Soyokaze, a fishing boat built by Kishi Boatworks in 1939, has been restored and is an outdoor permanent exhibit at the Museum at Campbell River
Landscapes of Injustice Archives
Searchable database providing access to thousands of records related to Japanese Canadian history and the dispossession of their property in the 1940s
- person summaries – birth date, occupation, spouse, children, pre-war address, wartime location, post-war repatriation if applicable
- custodian case files
- oral histories
- protest letters
- land titles
- fishing boat ledger
- Bird Commission court proceedings
- other files
Ledger of Japanese Canadian Repatriates [textual record]- Library and Archives of Canada
PDF ledger contains the names, birth years, and locations of all people who were scheduled to be repatriated to Japan in 1946 (includes annotations about who changed their minds and other information)
Books
Stanger-Ross, Jordan & Pamela Sugiman, eds. Witness to Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017.
Greenaway, John Endo and Linda Kawamoto Reid, and Fumiko Greenaway, DEPARTURES: Chronicling The Expulsion Of The Japanese Canadians From The West Coast 1942-1949, Nikkei National Museum, 2017.
Enomoto, Randy, Ed., Honouring Our People: Breaking the Silence, Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association, 2016.
Fukawa, Masako and Stanley Fukawa, Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC’s Japanese Canadian Fishermen, Harbour Publishing, 2009.
Yesaki, Mitsuo and Harold and Kathy Steves, Steveston Cannery Row: An illustrated History, Richmond, BC, 1998.
Yesaki, Mitsuo, A Historical Guide to the Steveston Waterfront, Peninsula Pub., 2002.
Bannister, Marie and Marilyn Clayton, eds., Steambox, Boardwalks, Belts and Ways : Stories from Britannia, Britannia Heritage Shipyard Oral History Project; vol. 1, 1992.
Boundary History, the 17th Report of the Boundary Historical Society, 2018.
Japanese Canadian Highway Legacy Sign Project, Nikkei National Museum, 2018.
Magazines and Journals
British Columbia History, The British Columbia Historical Federation magazine, Vol. 55, No. 2, Summer 2022.
Stanger-Ross, Jordan, “Telling a Difficult Past: Kishizo Kimura’s Memoir of Entanglement in Racist Policy“, BC Studies, No. 181, Spring 2014.