New Denver

Mark Toyama

Mark Toyama was a Nisei writer who published several popular works in The New Canadian prior to his early death. He was perhaps best known for his poem “powell st,” first published in The New Canadian in 1940 and then reprinted in 1942 in the midst of the Japanese Canadian community’s forced removal from that […]

Henry Shimizu

Born Prince Rupert BC.. 1928 Removal March 1942 Internment New Denver, BC, 1942 to 1946 Moved to Edmonton. AB. University of Alberta. 1948; Graduate – Medicine 1954 Graduate – BSc.MD, 1954 Surgical residency 1955 to 1959, University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine Plastic Surgery residency 1960 to 1962, University of Pittsburgh Medical Faculty Certificate of […]

Chie Kamegaya

Chie Kamegaya was a poet and author of Seasons in New Denver: Haiku (1994). Born in Japan to a samurai family, Kamegaya became a teacher in Tokyo, where she met her husband. After marriage, she joined him in Canada, and they both taught at the New Westminster Japanese Language School from 1931 to 1941, when […]