In this interview Jane Covernton interviews Amy Leigh regarding her life and career as a social worker. Leigh discusses her early years moving from England to Burnaby, British Columbia with her family. She emphasizes her involvement in Girl Guides. She explains how she became a social worker and the different positions she held throughout her career. At the end of the interview she expresses her views on the gender differences in the field of social work when she was working for the government of British Columbia. Regarding Japanese Canadians, Leigh notes that she worked for the British Columbia Security Commission for one year, and she was involved in finding and organizing the places where Japanese Canadians were forcibly removed to in the interior of British Columbia. Leigh briefly considers the impacts of race in how Japanese Canadians were treated during the internment era.
This oral history is from the British Columbia Archives and focuses on the experience of issei (first generation Japanese-Canadians).