In this second interview between Ruth Chambers and Winifred Awmack, they cover the same topics that were covered in the first interview because they feared they had lost the first interview. Awmack again explains how Tashme was constructed and how people lived their lives in the camp. She emphasizes the importance of the United and Anglican Church schools, and their central place in the community for Japanese Canadians. Awmack reveals the difficulties Japanese Canadians faced in deciding to move east or be exiled to Japan, and how the Canadian government actively tried to force Japanese Canadians to choose Japan over moving east. Awmack discusses the living situations Japanese Canadians faced on sugar beet farms. She illustrates the cultural differences between her and her students through two events and notes how students attended school at night to earn their education. Awmack feels this education was important in helping many Japanese Canadians obtain success in their lives with greater careers that may not have been available otherwise. Regarding dispossession, Awmack once again emphasizes how Japanese Canadians lost their property and had nothing to return to after the internment era, and she expresses how she thinks the Canadian government was planning on forcing Japanese Canadians to spread across Canada from the beginning. Awmack notes that Japanese-Canadian women almost always brought sewing machines with them if they owned one because it allowed families to maintain and create clothing.

This oral history is from the British Columbia Archives and focuses on the experience of issei (first generation Japanese-Canadians).