July I, 1940
THE NEW CANADIAN j
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A Picture - Bride Comes To Canada
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�Onvoie'd ,u she chew her: why so. -many - should :.hvc."-together that her mother fust- showed 'around' her .uulvvn. their, etowded: hide homo, but her picture.- - Like the other ��� t-!,\\, <-V'vr-'c'nding stretch of. jnoilior-:. sjnd. they, bad to earn as "-,1'aYking . � fundi to oross the '^V >sV �-�"with' skeptical eves-much monev as-thev .could, search ol brides, he-had sent
v rWcnih hid passed since! .-Tear hilly Natsuko had written o( � tare to his parents asking tl . 'when 'mk-' h�uhw.tvvd' a tea's - i the heavy buckets ot water she h.ul hml a bride for him. h was ' )� wt'.f 'o'her pucnts and friends � to tarry home trom the holes dugrot \ the pictute-mamages. 'I v>vn '!v ship had slid all -too fat toss the railroad tracks. When the; distance marriage witbvits s from the huboiir. easting a.j holes .were -dry .--she -lumped with jsuspense and intrigue bad. a bhcV'-^moke � between her [bee another along the dustv. roads to! to: her imagination.Acting the loved hues that grewj^ centnl water supply at the saw-'pulse as usual she bid .u^i and findlcr. and the last-mill Her father had no time to help offer
them wen wuh the hen,est house- Vor h,f lhou, bu{ l)Cl>n . nf .hold duties. ��� >of elaborate ceremonies, rio
. , . [tic. honeymoon. The marriag
>v70r JKse svmbols of a happy, j as they veto, her mother wotked to ,iMply KkQrdcA in lhc city ^ fuc .h.ldhood were peibaps lost (add a few pennies to (he slowly,^ |kk sho u ^ , m.mied v An unknown fuuuc(growing funds. Tune md again'
moment doubts Those hc^r(-bt
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With the Compliments of
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herry Beauty \ Star Beauty
Parlour
Powell
SE. 5322
,r'i;,r Kndmark ot her homeland \roVi-upped I un>ami � dipping irtaJwlh be>ond the bhie
o Nr t err ever.
lM-,J )>ei .in an unknown land. jNatsuko would aw a foil in the nud-lXjCAV for t Would everything be as wonder- ;dle of the night to find her moihci(lN over her. i jS she had hoped and dreamed>isewing clothes b> the flickering light{tales that*the chuterjng Kcik would be glorious adventure, [of a duty coal-oil lamp sewing on recounted to the giils at brji , -uvjUi hnc its moments of hu-jh(5r rickety m.uhine and uonmg with tj,js morniiig�were thev mi of
^Snappy Cleaners
520 Howe Street
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:jr and pathos It would be a-jCliimsy heated hand irons�and all j |,>td <^st a shadow of feu -urn world full of the glamour'for a miserable ten to fifteen <enis young picture brides who lik^ romance of the go'den west. j-i garment! Uko had placed their future
,ouW the lnrdsh.ps be over- ; hinds of cJnnco
Mn.tr, *wn for her high-sptntcd\[ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ homd^\ Reikb had told her awed IE
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Leaning on the rail of the grimy �r�mp steamer she recalled those days \rh'n 35 a round-eyed child she had Juried entranced:to (ales of a ne.wly-.-found pandtsc. Sitting there- on the f\\>r-� w 1th-her tiny- feet-1u c ked -care--: fully under her, she; listened ca refull y to <\ery detail, her black eyes shining with wonder. Yes, something wonderful had been discovered a liriii "^overflowing�-with -1 riches - and spJiUing with adventure.
DUT: - there were tales of bitter M hardships. too.:. su ffered by the. first "Japanese 'women -seeking-their fortune in the-land of the white man-^hardships offset only by the mysterit's.- of - a :remote country and the wide open spaces of an -unsettled: W. For. these .women it ;was all MoiVand no play;-There were about i-do?en-men-tor.cvery.�\voman~^a paradise; perhaps., under ordinary circumstances, but for them it meant jj^t that much more work,
She had heard stories too from �her-girlhood playmate; Natsuko. who bad sailed to ;Canada with" her pares vears before. Her letters had h\rt,uty bitter and depressing at l.ma for life .on the-crude little scow 4 ihe ivatcr"s edge had-been dismally
'hit working ,50 bard, , cooking i54-w�l�,ng-:.\3nd?r$i:rubbi'n'g.'iforr-aH frv>t rou^h mlllhands who Hvcd
fiveiything; she - had said,- was- so strange and different; She missed: her playmates for when she tried;to make: friends with the Canadian "children they couldn't understand her. The food-she-had to-eat -had-a-peciihai taste for there was not a grain of rice nor a drop of shoyu. Uven the scenery frightened: her, for here iu-ture's rugged h>iughty grandenr. tow-ered over -her. so unlike the familiar scenes of her home.
-Bur Naisuko's mother told :� her that the J a pa ne s e: never allow their spirit to be broken, They had Oirown away their old life and -had come. to make a place, for themselves in.a new ] millhand country�;� Thev must hear up without complaints, And. even in time Natsuko herself had w.riren in a.
for- their's wis Th? infinite <aOaci*y
'o bend withouf h^ikhic {dxeamed of, a husband she wj
VEARS hid passed 'and ^./j^vays be proud of/ \Vould her Y , , Jbe a shilling one of happiness and
-Natsuko s childish. letters, -bad j;, . . v .� % � , , ,^�>ii-;/.;i;r-. . - -, :, � . fortune;-Or would her tale- be count-;
about the- pioneers who had faIse- ptctures of luxury and ordcr to induce young girls tp^ side. Imager girls seeking the of the white man's pleasures to spend only two - or three thrills, in-the cities aiuLjhe-n,. themselves to sleep buried.--.in a tomb in some wild logging ca desolate farm. nj|f
Some.griz/.led old:men- whoM for helpmates used trickery. - I of sending pictures of the as-tlicy were : they-, sent- piciuj their youthful days. The unsii ing bride (hen came over to fi" the handsome dashing hero dreams, but an- old rough a
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WUKIKO studied again the
*� t u re she ? clasped in her AVould he be as kind and thotj" ful-as -he- 4ooked^^\\LoJLiHJlici the kind of husband she
lationaf Cleaners
G Nishrda << 1178 Robson Street
Shoppe
Mrs. F. isomura
Dre^muher
Commercial, Hi. 5972-L
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Barclay Grocery
> * F H.rai
|, 1500 Barclay Street
becomes thing- of. the past.- the news spread through Japan of the- grow
ed among the other tragcdies? Sud-Idenly all her doubts ^vanished. iSome-
ing demand for women in the ncw{how $he knw l|u| hc wonW VlW country j |Q. hjfr xd^b {hn hc ^oulJ hi
Standing there on the sliPpery[c;ccy,hing she h,d hoped and
fn^htcningv She hated to see her deck.: Yukiko drew from her-bosomIdroant'cd of
a':= photograph of.:a handsome -young i pioneer.--^-She remembered ..ivividjyL every - detail of that: eventful: day!
A dark speck of land arose on the \ icastetnw hoiizoh. - Jirst aV few.'mofe 1
Wft ihcm.- She couldn't understand{that changed her whole life; the day
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jfef? M Imada
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Ed Yasunobu -1955 Commercial Drive.
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K: Morino
1319 Commercial Drive
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625 East 15th Avenue
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