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Nisei Woman's Personal Reflect ions on他eJpnz. Ca股dian Evacuation
ED. NOTE: ,foUoivingr ticle was first publishedjn the MontrealBulletin by /Mr& June Tanaka offering )her personal reflections onれゃtperiod ' the evaisuation* The ! 、 Bulletin ho的topublish 'jth靴,inemo« jhrs ]ofthi叫s that happened du. Hnぉthosもturbulもnt Umes in 丄C.histpry befひt"e they arefor* go t It an id】ひst forever.
By june tAnAKA
'M0i4扭:E^L, 一 Iひ窗紐"ng of1946, my motto, four dhUd-aきI, came from Kaslo, JB. <J. to join my husband who had preceded us by a yきand was •vyorking站An eu^ountant for a ste^lcoinp«any. It wa, an oveト cast day, and, coming from scenic B.C., the grey old st卿buildings allaround狄柳ed di" and "pressing, but theii my eyes caug"ht the flash" of the white gloveso" pol"m效n directing trafズic in the midst of this sombr6 setting, andんsome, how my spiritslifted. Perhaip«, 'i tibought we can make aむ幼h start here.
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me here in1944 • They hadlei ft ia thriving fu加itひreっbuaiiiess and 'alovely ho me an4 we re living in an oW house on De Bui:ion Street. Housing )vas our immediate <inH>biem. The MontrealStar di<J not have one Hsting of <*ap(aTt-ments tulet/, Ileained that pe-opk^ sood waitdngoutsiiJe the "Star" officerfot a|>ok"bleva-caincy, and thus by the time my husband rfad the ad and rusli" over after work, it was €ilwayg too1ate. Wらlooked in the French newspapers and Pressse carried seven ai listings "alo^er/, B.C. W妙schoolFrwch cajne in h奶dy as I jilbout hwiu-
iring. To my surprise, the apaT-丰enぉwere to be hみooily by 'payihiぇ"key-m6ney/, a uimp sum for tlie furniture in theon. And this was the way we mited our firゅhome in .Montrealtwo weeks after our "rrival,It was in the French &peaidng district of St. Dominique. Oui's was 4 mo-d<$t 6 roomれat, cran^med with ol4 f urnはlire: 2 sets of dhesteor-fields, metalbぉs, a dres set wi你ouもdrawei"S and an ainciefit^ oiレb Ilining stoVe aはfor、 which wej>"id多l,OOO in cash. Buiぉhe rent was only多23 a month and the owner wiholived downstairs w as pa,iitgらven moi:e forless. The lumsnmgs dejM^e&sed me and thtiャitf"aiiii!〗れ4<^iLblewiivd, ows of eastemCanada m"e me fed enc]k>sed.lloiiged tore, turn tothough I knew that AVasnol to ber
I ha4 face realiるy and〗cok a head. The. older eh i】drきh € rtrolled in ihe nearest Protestant school, aa^dwith myniotligir、oaa:ingfor the,oyoiniぉr'カnes I went^ to work as haii:dresseゃ"Wぉilゃゅr-kir^g I aお9 tc^k a brush-地co> iirsふand passed thei"€guir^<i provincialexaminatioivfor a com-petencycarんIn those day^ itliva^— a noveltyまor Quette^e^toS)ae an Orientalfemale, and no one1 I net seemed tok now o| the eou forcedpva<niationof the .J邵a-nese« Cli印ts were curious about me, my naUonaiity,lang:uage, family, and whyl、ケas so far away from Japaru My Jewish employer who had hired me readily happened toiKar me reply to an inquisitive client that I was here because of the war, and that I had come directly from "a restricted area in interior B. C." "You meanlike a conc^れtra-tto camp,,? was the surprised query. I replied "Yes." It must have touched a raw nerve. She asked mcj Uter nevfi.to mention the word "cajnp,' to anyone, ami to ft ay that1was Chinese. I was proud of my Japanese heri-t&ge and qu【t soon after.
My second emがoyer was moch
more opciiにI asked at theoqteet if he would mind If1told my customers I w" of Japanese descent if I )vas asked. "Why加t?,, w站}iis rゅiy. "You're « Jap«u tieseCanadian, rmScottiah Gana-dian, the mare,rlatici(n他e me-rHer." I "It co卿!etely汰t鄉e. He ,ぉネfair employer dnd I enjoyed worlohigfor himinthia b的utぱulW est mount : shop. I stチyed there three years抓d
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A多1seれied into hmはne I got used to the St. DominiquejHat where thゃchildren made fdends ゅひHe Frend I justlike one of them" arulwith kind neighbours I gradually b^ゃainもacclimatized. In the meantime my husband's 柳 pidyer anひved his busines"^ address to a new building in L«-where the entire upper 3t、o-ry wastQ'b0ovtrILviitg quarters, modem and ovfir twice aslarge as our J HatにMy hus"band w逸s by theii office manager so it waき a convenient arran^ntent. His employer was extremely kinも syr(ipatti"ic to 0urdispl狄emtnも and tried to comfort us in many 、vays. He used to bring hi is oar on Sundays to St, Dominique so we could all get out, and one Summer he personally took the two older chUdreれto hi多farm in Beamsville, Ontario, as we couldn't afford any holidays. I shall rievey forg" thesendnesses.
One d红y he asfcediheif I,%>o, wo:ild卞oi,k foir himasヌecepti(xh-isUn the office downstairs where they had a si nailswitchboard. I was delighted that I didn,t have toゆout t0v^r}c, and cout^ihe so near ho me forthp children. F;"(miもh印カii6ur financialぉua-tion l)eg幼to improve and we we-r^: able to get a carof our o由 to explore他e dtjr加dsurro昏 dmgregkms. Th,re仓as ituicli more1t6 Que^ecUvai]i theひW l)ず U<lings of my f h'社glimpseな becamらof its pe(yple,歸r cus-tpmers andm&mierisms, Montreal's umミuもTWss and its cosmo-poUtan character.
In1954 my husband and two partnersにan Austrian and a Frenchman, started their own business in aluminum products, aiid we moved to our own split-levelho、me in Cote St. Luc in 1955.
Thougト.the.long winters still get me dcxwn, every邻11118"&11111-麼r when the bare branches seemingly explode intoleaves and in the fallwhen br eaまtakingly beauUfレlmapks (lot the sunny !and9caiM^ I feelat peace with the窗ld and say to myself "Uv:3 i3 my home now." Aft"' 3i years, oui roots are here in Montreal,' dela beU« province Quebec*
"fo for Broke" Vets衡Tour ofEuro I lean Bat tie Sites
FRESNO, CaUf. — Vもt^ram of the fabled レNisei 442nd infantry combat r绍im— have complete plans for a; fれlltour of sites in France andItaly which they first »aw as GIs.
The vcterai^s, accompaTiied by members of tiheii:* jfamiUes and friendsi plan toleave L03 Anが-les on Oct.11and return on CK?t. 2み
<3n 0cビ15,theyw511pirtioii^a" te inamt^m^rialserゃiゃ&红tBoniy, e?es, a Fぉ,ich town whi6h was lib era tec J from Axis forces by thdNi$d r《fgriinent on Oct.18, 1944. Where a montwnent comm-
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