After years of advocacy, the historic Joy Kogawa house is close to receiving heritage designation.
The 1912 bungalow features a gabled roof, Craftsman-style exposed rafters, tongue-and-groove soffits, diamond paned windows and, hidden somewhere under the stucco, cedar-shake siding.
In 1944, the house was auctioned off by the government without the family’s consent. Kogawa’s family wasn’t allowed to move back to B.C. after the Second World War due to exclusion zones, and she never lived in the home again.Article content Kogawa visited the home in 2003, where she was inspired by a gnarled cherry tree that was thriving in the backyard. In, Kogawa spoke about touching its trunk: “I was filled with awe and had an overwhelming sense of the presence — an all-knowing and all-loving presence — a sense that everything was known: all the suffering that had ever happened among us, within our family, within our community. All the suffering of the people was altogether known, and we were altogether loved.
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