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Yayoi Negishi conversing with Sayoko Hattori
28 April 1997
Vancouver, BC

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Notes:

This article by Susan Sirovyak appeared in Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the 20th Century, edited by Sharon Anne Cook, Lorna R. McLean and Kate O'Rourke, published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001, and is generously reproduced with permission of the publisher.

The author would like to thank co-curators Naomi Sawada, Minnie Hattori and Suzi Nitta Petersen; Dr. Midge Ayukawa and Dr. Michael Wilson for their excellent advice and editing assistance; the staff and volunteers at the Japanese Canadian National Museum & Archives Society; and the individuals who shared their stories and assisted us with this project: Ruth Hamaguchi, Sayoko Hattori, Bev Inouye, Tokuko Inouye, Yosh Kariatsumari, Ayako Kohara, Kimiko Matsunaga, Chizu Nakamura, Yayoi Negishi, Mary Ohara, Kimiyo Oshikawa, Mary Otto, Chie Oya, Ritsuko Saimoto, Marie Saito, Mary Seki, Joe Tatebe and Kay Tatebe.

(1) Dedicated to preserving and presenting the history and experience of the Japanese Canadian community, the Japanese Canadian National Museum is located in the National Nikkei Heritage Centre in Burnaby, B.C.

(2) The term Nikkei refers to any persons who are of Japanese origin; I use the terms Nikkei and Japanese Canadian interchangeably throughout this paper.

(3) Telephone interview with Kay Tatebe, June 1996.

(4) Dr. Michiko (Midge) Ayukawa, "Yoosai: Western Sewing", Nikkei Images (Newsletter of the Japanese Canadian National Museum & Archives), V.1, No.III, (July 1996), 3-4.

(5) "Report of the Survey of Second Generation Japanese in British Columbia" published by the Committee for the Second Generation Japanese in British Columbia, The Canadian Japanese Association; Japanese Canadian National Museum archives, Campbell, Brazier, Fisher and McMaster Barristers and Solicitors fonds, JCNM 97/086.

(6) Interview with Tokuko Inouye, June, 1997.

(7) The New Canadian, 22 August 1941, 3.

(8) Mary Otto, personal correspondence, June 1996.

(9) Interview with Sayoko Hattori, June, 1996.

(10) Interview with Ayako Kohara, June, 1996.

(11) Young, Charles H. and Helen R. Reid. The Japanese Canadians, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1938), 74.

(12) Mary Otto, personal correspondence, June 1996.

(13) Marie Saito, personal correspondence, June 1996.