Nikkei Kanadajin no nihongo kyoiku / Tsutae Sato and Hanako Sato

Nikkei Kanadajin no nihongo kyoiku / Tsutae Sato and Hanako Sato

Description

Title Proper Nikkei Kanadajin no nihongo kyoiku / Tsutae Sato and Hanako Sato
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1976–1977
General material designation
This file has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.
Scope and content
File consists of one book by Tsutae and Hanako Sato regarding the history of the Vancouver Japanese Language School which they founded, as well as enclosed personal letters from the Satos to Roy Ito, newsclipping, photoprint, press release, and some VJLS student poetry in Japanese. The book has a preface by Roy Ito and some short essays in honour of the Satos by their students.
Name of creator
Roy Ryoichi Ito was born in British Columbia. During the internment period he was relocated with his family initially to work on a sugar beet farm in Alberta, then to Kaslo, BC, where he worked on The New Canadian newspaper, then to Hamilton, Ontario, where he began studies at McMaster University in 1943. He was recruited to join the army, and served as a sergeant with the Canadian Intelligence Corps in India and South-East Asia. After the Second World War, Ito completed his university degree and became a teacher, and later was employed for twenty-five years as a school principal. He retired in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1984. Ito was married and had four children. He wrote several social science books for use in schools and two histories of Japanese Canadians entitled Stories of My People and We Went to War.
Immediate source of acquisition
No digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

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Nikkei Kanadajin no nihongo kyoiku / Tsutae Sato and Hanako Sato
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