Toshio Odamura collection

From this fonds, LOI has digitized 2 textual records and other records.

The collection consists of two series of textual and graphic material and artifacts related to the life of Toshio Odamura and his family in the 1920s and 1930s in Steveston, BC, and later in the 1940s in Slocan, BC, assembled by Odamura. The series include such material as elementary school books and photograph, a Slocan Japanese directory, and household items used by the Odamura family.

Toshio Odamura was a Canadian of Japanese descent who grew up in Steveston, BC where he attended Lord Byng School. In the 1930s, he studied at the Steveston Japanese Language School, and in January 1936 he married Naraye Sakai in Haney, BC. His father, Magoichi Odamura, was a fisherman in Steveston, BC and later farmed in Haney, BC. Toshio Odamura was interned at Slocan, BC, and lived at Bay Farm, moving with his wife to Penticton, BC after the end of the war years and later to Vancouver, BC.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.