Densho Digital Archive
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Collection
Title: Shizuko Kadoguchi Interview
Narrator: Shizuko Kadoguchi
Interviewer: Peter Wakayama
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date: February 15, 2005
Densho ID: denshovh-kshizuko-01-0023

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PW: Mrs. Kadoguchi and her family when she was six years old.

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PW: Mrs. Kadoguchi with her family when she was nine years old in Vancouver.

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PW: This is the Ide family in 1926 in Vancouver, Mrs. Kadoguchi was six at this time.

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PW: Mrs. Kadoguchi when she was six years old.

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PW: The Ide family in Vancouver, B.C., Mrs. Kadoguchi was ten at this time.

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PW: The Ide family in Vancouver, Mrs. Kadoguchi was nine, the year before she went back to Japan with her parents.

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PW: Bob and Shizuko married in Vancouver, 1942.

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PW: This is a photograph of Mrs. Kadoguchi when she went back to Japan, and the photograph in a formal wedding gown in Japan, substantially after she was married.

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PW: This is the commission permit to allow Bob to go to Vancouver from Woodfibre in April 15, 1942, so he could travel to Vancouver and, to get married to Shizuko. He was to return to Woodfibre on April the 20th, 1942. This was issued by the British Columbia Security Commission.

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PW: This is Tashme, where the Kadoguchi family was interned in the interior of B.C. Photograph taken from near the top of the mountain, looking down into the valley where the houses were located at Tashme.

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PW: The view of Tashme showing the row housing, the store area, the smaller buildings by the trees, and the barn which was converted into apartments.

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PW: The group photo of the cast of the shibais, or concerts that were held in Tashme.

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PW: Bob and Sue in front of their house, shack, in the winter in Tashme.

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PW: Logging and preparing firewood for the houses in Tashme.

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PW: Working in the forest to get firewood for the Tashme camp.

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PW: Bob and some of the people who were preparing firewood for the camp at Tashme.

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PW: Hauling firewood for fuel for Tashme.

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PW: Bob and Sue outside their tarpaper shack in Tashme.

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PW: The first Tashme troops, Boy Scout troop. The leaders and patrol leaders.

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PW: The members of the cast for a shibai, or concert, in Tashme.

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PW: Bob in the center of the executive committee of the Tashme Youth Organization in 1944.

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PW: Young Bob, the organizer for the TYO.

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PW: 1944, the Tashme senior baseball championship champions, the Hayabusa.

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PW: The executive of the TYO, Tashme Youth Organization executive committee, 1944.

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PW: Bob Kadoguchi.

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PW: The cast of the TYO for their concert in Tashme.

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PW: Scoutmaster Shig Yoshida. Bob Kadoguchi.

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PW: Young Bobby Ito. And Bob Kadoguchi.

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PW: Bobby Ito tap dancing at one of the concerts.

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PW: Some of the members of the cast in their kimonos. Bob Kadoguchi.

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PW: Bob Kadoguchi getting his Order of Canada from the governor general in Ottawa.

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