After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the federal government forced her family to leave its Vancouver home in 1942 and move to an internment camp - an experience that would light a fire in her to combat discrimination and racism
Grace Eiko Thomson speaks at the 10th Annual Vancouver Asahi Tribute Game in 2015. Ms. Thomson and her family were among 22,000 Japanese-Canadians forced into internment camps three months after the bombing of Pearl harbor in 1941 under the guise of protecting Canada from supposed Japanese turncoats.
“To witness an elder from my cultural community stand up and speak truth to power – that totally changed my relationship to my own cultural identity,” says Emiko Morita, executive director of Vancouver’s Powell Street Festival Society. “She has been such a role model to so many people.” His wife’s reaction to the rough barn in rural Manitoba where they first had to move is captured in Ms. Thomson’s 2021 memoirwhich combined excerpts from her mother’s journaling with reflections from Ms. Thomson’s own life.
The boys were starting into their teen years when Ms. Thomson went back to school in the 1970s to get a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Manitoba, with further studies at the University of British Columbia. She grew increasingly uncomfortable with being an Asian woman in a “white” life, and the marriage ended in the early 1980s.
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