Interview with Sumie Tanaka (nee Sasaki)

Date

2012

Description

The interview discusses Sumie's parents immigrating from Wakayama ken and setting up and selling various businesses on Powell Street, Vancouver, BC. Sumie, the oldest of three girls, at the age of two was taken back to Japan for fourteen years to live with her grandparents. At the age of sixteen, she returned to Powell Street in 1934 where she worked in different businesses run by her father. The businesses include the New World Hotel, Blackman Market, Matsunoya., Fuji Chop Suey and Momotaro and Sumie discusses each. She also discusses the Tokiwa yu,a bathhouse she went to daily. At the end she recounts the influence Etsuji Morii had on the Powell Street area.

Physical description

1 online resource (1 audio file (01:29:07))

Accession Number

2012.9.1

Location

British Columbia

Genre

Interviews

Oral histories

Sound recordings

Type of resource

Sound recording non-musical

Language

English

Japanese

Part of

Japanese Canadian Oral History Collection

Identifier

johc_21

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