Leanne Toshiko Simpson and her mother embarked on a road trip through British Columbia to trace her Japanese-Canadian grandmother’s history
Leanne Toshiko Simpson, left, and her mother Brenda stand outside the house in New Denver, B.C., where Ms. Toshiko Simpson's grandmother lived during the Second World War. The family was moved to this larger space from an internment shack.A few years ago, Toronto writer and University of Toronto lecturer Leanne Toshiko Simpson took a road trip with her mother through British Columbia . They had a very specific itinerary for a deeply personal pilgrimage: Ms.
My mom and I both felt that taking this trip together might help bridge some of the gaps we felt so deeply, at a time when we were also confronting the fact that we didn’t have as much time left to ask important questions.You said your overarching goal was to find out if your grandmother’s house in New Denver was still standing – the house where her family had been relocated to after they were taken from their home in Cumberland, B.C.
We FaceTimed my grandmother so she could see it was still there. I have a photo of her clasping her face with such joy and I look at it quite often.Maybe this was naive of me, but I was surprised by how hard it was to find markers of history outside of the museum.
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