Resources

For further research:

  • Adachi, Ken. The Enemy that Never Was: A History of the Japanese Canadians. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976.

  • Bock, Vera, illus. A Child's Book of Poems. New York: The Peter Pauper Press, no date.

  • Broadfoot, Barry. Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame: The Story of the Japanese Canadians in World War II. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1977.

  • Bryant, C. Coaldale Gem of the West, 1900-1983. Coaldale: Coaldale Historical Society, 1983.

  • Iwaasa, David. "The Canadian Japanese in Alberta, 1905-1945" in Two Monographs on Japanese Canadians, edited by Roger Daniels. New York, 1978.

  • Caldarola, C., M. Shimpo, and K.V. Ujimoto, Ban Seng Hoe, ed. Sakura in the Land of the Maple Leaf: Japanese Cultural Traditions in Canada. Gatineau: Canadian Museum of Civilization Corp., 2007.

  • Iwaasa, David. "The Japanese in Southern Alberta 1941-45" in Alberta History Summer 1974 Vol. 24 no. 3 pp 5-19. 

  • Iwaasa, David.  "The Mormons and their Japanese Neighbours" in Alberta History Winter 2005 Vol. 53, no. 1 pp 7-22.

  • Johnson, Alex & den Otter, Andy. Lethbridge: A Centennial History. Lethbridge: City of Lethbridge, 1985.

  • Johnston, Alex et al.  Lethbridge:  Its Coal Industry.  Lethbridge: City of Lethbridge and Lethbridge Historical Society, 1989. *

  • Kogawa, Joy, Itsuka, Viking Press, 1992.

  • Kogawa, Joy. Naomi’s Road. Markham: Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited, 2005.

  • Kogawa, Joy. Obasan. Markham: Penguin Books Canada, 1981.

  • Makabe, Tomoko. Picture Brides: Japanese Women in Canada. Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1995. English translation by Kathleen Merken.

  • Morgan, Grace, & Routley, C.B., ed. Poems for Boys and Girls, Book Two. Toronto: Copp ClarkCo., 1965.

  • Nakayama, Gordon G. Issei: Stories of Japanese Canadian Pioneers. Toronto: NC Press, 1984.

  • Nishiki, Nikkei Tapestry: A History of Southern Alberta Japanese Canadians. Lethbridge: Lethbridge and District Japanese Canadian Association, 2001.

  • Takata, Toyo. Nikkei Legacy: The Story of Japanese Canadians from Settlement to Today. Toronto: NC Press Ltd., 1983.

  • Turner, Lawrence, ed. Raymond Remembered: Settlers, Sugar and Stampedes: A History of the Town and People of Raymond. Raymond: Town of Raymond, 1993.

  • Viel, Aimee. Lethbridge on the Homefront, 1939 to 1945. Lethbridge: Lethbridge Historical Society, 1998. *

  • Watada, Terry. Bukkyo Tozen: A history of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism in Canada 1905-1995. HpF Press and the Toronto Buddhist Church.

  • Yamagishi (Sato), N. Rochelle. Nikkei Journey: Japanese Canadians in Southern Alberta. Nikkei Cultural Society of Lethbridge & Area and Sir Alexander Galt Museum & Archives, 2005.

  • Young, C.H. & Reid, H.R.Y. The Japanese Canadians. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1938.

* Digital copies available: University of Lethbridge Digitized Collections

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