Internment Camp Research Booklets

This series has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.

This series consists of nine research booklets created by Tom Tagami about the internment camps. The types of information inside the research booklets includes copies of photographs, map sketches and lists of names. The titles given to the booklets are "Bay Farm - Slocan 1942-1946," "Slocan City 1942 to 1946," "Lemon Creek 1942-1946," "Popoff Slocan 1942-1946," "Dept. of Labor Japanese Division Office Staff and Friends Christmas Party Slocan City 1945," "Jikkyo Iin Kai Popoff Community Hall Slocan City, BC 1944," "Vancouver Island Nisei Commemoration Convention Victoria, BC May 27-28, 1939," " Keirokai Slocan City, BC October 1, 1942" and "1946 Census of Japanese Interned in Slocan City, Bay Farm and Popoff Courtesy of Sam Shishido."

Tom (Itsuro) Tagami was born on February 10, 1920 in Koksilah, BC. He was the son of Jirosaku Tagami from Higashimuro in Wakayama-ken, Japan and Koyoshi Tagami (nee Yamamoto) from Nishimuro, Wakayama-ken.

During the internment, Tom and his family were sent to Hastings Park, where they stayed for three months before relocating to Slocan. In Slocan, he continued his trade and worked at various lumber companies.

No digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.