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With Joy Kogawa at Historic Joy Kogawa House!

Joy Kogawa’s novel Obasan, about a Japanese Canadian woman’s childhood experiences in a Canadian internment camp during WW II was an eye-opener. While I had previously heard about the round-up of all Japanese from the west coast and their exile to remote British Columbia towns and prairie farms, the novel brought home not only the …

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Dr. Victoria Chung – A Chinese-Canadian Mystery

During this last week of National Asian Heritage Month, I wanted to introduce readers to Dr. Victoria Chung. Toy Mea Chung was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1897, the same year that Queen Victoria celebrated her Diamond Jubilee. Perhaps this is why her parents chose the English name of Victoria for her. From an …

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