Densho Digital Archive
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Collection
Title: Kimi Wakabayashi Interview
Narrator: Kimi Wakabayashi
Interviewer: Peter Wakayama
Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Date: January 10, 2005
Densho ID: denshovh-wkim-01-0010

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[Description of photographs.]

PW: This is a needlepoint that Kimi Wakabayashi did for her daughter, Ruby.

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PW: Another example of Kimi Wakabayashi's needlepoint.

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PW: -- garden which she still does in Saskatoon.

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PW: At ninety-two, she still does her own gardening and mows the lawn in the summertime.

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PW: Wakabayashi Crescent, named by the city in recognition of the contribution from the Wakabayashi family in Saskatoon, and this is with her family.

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PW: The family.

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PW: Arthur Wakabayashi with his Order of Canada presentation with Governor General Adrienne Clarkson in Ottawa

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PW: Arthur named Chancellor University of Regina.

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PW: George, the sixtieth anniversary of the Mikado shop.

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PW: George in the farewell and thank you after sixty years of the Mikado Silk, established in 1933 by his father Tokujiro Wakabayashi.

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PW: Fourth-generation Damon Wakabayashi with his grandparents Art and Marge Wakabayashi of Regina, Saskatchewan.

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PW: Fourth-generation Claire Kimi Chalmers, daughter of Janet and Mark Chalmers of Vancouver, B.C., in 2004.

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PW: Kimi is named after her great-grandmother.

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