School books and directory
Description
| Title Proper | School books and directory |
| Date(s) | 1921–1946 |
| General material designation |
This series contains 2 textual records and other records.
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| Scope and content |
Series consists of school related graphic and textual material from the 1920s and
1930s, including readers, moral education and history textbooks, calligraphy books
and handwriting manuals, and one photograph, as well as a Slocan Japanese Directory
produced at Bay Farm in 1946.
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| Name of creator |
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.
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| Immediate source of acquisition |
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research
Collective between 2014 and 2018.
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Structure
| Repository | Nikkei National Museum |
| Fonds | Toshio Odamura collection |
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School books and directory
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Terminology
Readers of these historical materials will encounter derogatory references to Japanese
Canadians and euphemisms used to obscure the intent and impacts of the internment
and dispossession. While these are important realities of the history, the Landscapes
of Injustice Research Collective urges users to carefully consider their own terminological
choices in writing and speaking about this topic today as we confront past injustice.
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