School books and directory

School books and directory

Description

Title Proper School books and directory
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1921–1946
General material designation
From this series, LOI has digitized 2 textual records and other records.
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.
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.
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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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. See our statement on terminology, and related sources here.