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Lecture: Japanese Interment Camp in Southwest Middlesex

January 18, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Free

Topic: Japanese Interment Camp in Southwest Middlesex
Time: Jan 18, 2023 07:00 PM America/Toronto

The presentation will be a talk and slide show in person and via zoom. It deals with the Japanese-Canadians who came to work on farms in Glencoe in 1942. They had been removed from British Columbia. Its focus is on Yon Shimizu one of the young men sent to work on farms in the Glencoe area.  

Come to the Archives in person or stay home and join the Zoom Meeting
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Facebook Post 2016
Brian Angyal had the great pleasure of interviewing Yon Shimizu February 2016 to get a first hand account of his Glencoe adventures. Yon passed away on July 2, 2016 but left behind a pictorial account of his time in the Glencoe work camp.
Yon Shimizu was an 18 year old from Victoria B.C. He was initially sent to Northern Ontario but in May 1942 he and over 100 others were sent to work on farms in SW Ontario.
Crystal Palace at Glencoe fair grounds, 1942
Brian Angyal interviewed Yon Shimizu just before he died in 2016. Documenting our peoples’ stories is so important.

Details

Date:
January 18, 2023
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cost:
Free

Organizer

Glencoe & District Historical Society
Phone:
(519) 287-3897
Email:
contactus@glencoehistoricalsociety.ca
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Venue

The Archives
178 McKellar Street
Glencoe (Southwest Middlesex), Ontario N0L 1M0 Canada
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Phone:
519 287 3897
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