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20th Anniversary of Japanese-Canadian redress: Friendship Tree plaque installed at Vancouver City Hall for the Kogawa House cherry tree graft
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Kogawa House cherry tree at Vancouver city hall is given a plaque on the 20th anniversary of the Japanese-Canadian redress. Friendship Tree plaque at Vancouver City Hall for the Kogawa House cherry tree graft - photo Ann-Marie Metten. Sixty-six years ago, in 1942, Japanese-Canadians were evacuated from Canada's Pacific coast and sent to internment camps for the duration of WW2.in 1981, Joy Kogawa wrote her first novel Obasan, the first novel to address the issue of the Japanese-Canadian internment. Joy Kogawa would receive the Order of Canada in 19862005 was a busy...
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