1942 Evacuation: Recollection of George Takeyasu

From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.

The manuscript, completed in 1987, was written by George Takeyasu. Written in first person, the manuscript chronicles George Takeyasu and his families life beginning with the day they were forcibly removed from their family home in April, 1942, and ending with the end of 1942. The manuscript follows the family's uprooting to Picture Butte, Alberta, where they worked on a sugar beet farm. The manuscript is divided into four chapters, The Train Ride, The Sugar Beets, The Winter, and Survived: 1942. Black and white photographs are interspersed throughout the work.

George Takeyasu was born in 1925 in Hiroshima, Japan. His parents, Shizuyo and Nobuich had moved to Canada in 1920, the year they had married, but later returned to Japan in 1922, the year in which Yoshiaki, George's brother was born. Two years following George's birth, the family returned to Canada and established a tailor/dry cleaning shop on Broadway, in Vancouver B.C. In 1928 Yoshiaki passed away and the family business was sold off. Nobuichi then established a chiropractic office. In 1930 Shigeto, another son, was born. Later the family moved to Ruskin, B.C. and in 1934 a daughter, Matsuko was born.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

This record was digitized in full.