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TI: So this is 1945, what year did you graduate from high school?

MO: High school? I think I graduated '45.

TI: And so after graduating from high school, what did you do?

MO: I thought I'd take the same... I went to the University of Manitoba, got a degree in 1950.

BY: So about '46 to '50 or '45 to '50?

MO: Yeah.

TI: And so I don't know my Canadian geography. How far away is the University of Manitoba from Winnipeg?

MO: University of Manitoba? It's quite a ways.

TI: So you were going a long ways away then to go to college?

MO: Yeah.

TI: And is that going east then, you're going east?

MO: No. Fort Garry College was in Fort Garry, (University of Manitoba, Fort Garry campus), so took about half an hour by bus from Winnipeg. I took a streetcar to one of the streets, and then took a bus to college. There was quite a few... there was about half a dozen Japanese boys from Alberta in the University of Manitoba at that time.

TI: Okay, so you were commuting from Winnipeg to go to college back and forth.

MO: Yeah.

TI: And do you remember what kind of work your father did when he was in Winnipeg?

MO: Winnipeg? He was working in McKenzie Seeds. McKenzie Seeds, he didn't like that job.

BY: Seed, like S-E-E-D?

MO: Yeah, piling up the seed bag and all that.

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