Textual Material Related to Paldi, BC

Textual Material Related to Paldi, BC

Description

Title Proper Textual Material Related to Paldi, BC
Date(s) 1997–2000
General material designation
This series contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This series consists one file containing a book and two copies of a map related to Paldi, BC. The book is called "Paldi Remembered by Joan Mayo: 50 Years in the Life of a Vancouver Island Logging Town." The two maps are photocopies of a sketch drawn by Tom Tagami of the Mayo Lumber Mill and Yard in Paldi, BC as it was in 1933. Included with the maps are lists of the locations and names of people who lived there.
Name of creator
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.
Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

Structure

Repository Nikkei National Museum
Fonds Tom I Tagami collection

Metadata

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Textual Material Related to Paldi, BC
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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.