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Newspaper image, showing the Girls' College of Practical Arts at Vancouver, BC.1 May 1939
Vancouver, BC
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Young women in front of the Girls' College of Practical Arts15 May 1939
Vancouver, BC
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Newspaper article regarding the Girls' College of Practical Arts in Vancouver, BC.1939
Vancouver, BC
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Graduate portrait of Margaret Kayoko Uyeda1940
Vancouver, BC
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Toshimi Ochiai and the Kawano MethodToshimi Ochiai attended the Kawano Method of Practical Sewing Instruction course starting in 1939 after she had graduated from Grandview High School of Commerce in Vancouver. The sewing course cost ninety dollars and took Toshimi three years to complete. Toshimi's classmates included some three dozen other young Japanese Canadian women.
The course was developed and led by Mrs. Y. Kawano, a highly reputed dressmaker whose business was located in the 1930s and 1940s on a main Vancouver thoroughfare at 259 East Hastings Street, on the edge of the Powell Street district. Mrs. Kawano was particularly known for her intricately sewn wedding gowns and finely tailored dresses. During the internment years beginning in 1942, Mrs. Kawano relocated to Revelstoke, British Columbia, near the Rocky Mountains, where she taught privately.
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Portrait of the Kawano Method of Practical Sewing Instruction class at Vancouver, BC, in 1940.1940
Vancouver, BC
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Portrait of the Kawano Method of Practical Sewing Instruction class at Vancouver, BC, in 1941.16 February 1941
Vancouver, BC
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Portrait of the Kawano Method of Practical Sewing Instruction class graduates, Vancouver, BC, 19411941
Vancouver, BC
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Fusae MayedeFusae Mayede, aged 94 in 2003, was a young woman when she attended the Hamaguchi School on Main Street in Vancouver, in the period around 1925-1928. The school was located in the same building as the Murakami Photography Studio. Fusae received free lessons and room and board in exchange for domestic services. After attending the school for one year, she had to return to the fishing village at Steveston on the Fraser River, due to the illness of her grandmother. She continued her lessons at the Hamamoto Dressmaking School.
Mary Ohara, from a conversation with Fusae Mayede, May 2003
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A newspaper article about Haruko Morishita.1941
Vancouver, BC
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A newspaper article about the Kawano Method of Practical Sewing Instruction course.1941
Vancouver, BC
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Advertisements in The New Canadian.1941
Vancouver, BC
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A newspaper article on the Academy of Domestic Arts.1941
Vancouver, BC
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Students of the Marietta School of Costume DesignFebruary, 1942
Vancouver, BC
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