Description |
1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Hard life of a first born -- Getting started in a new land -- Early logging ventures -- A large-scale logging operation -- Life in a logging camp -- An unwanted partnership -- Personal life -- Maintaining Japanese traditions -- Education is a top priority -- A man of faith in action -- The Canadian Japanese Association in action -- Other activities in the community -- Participation in memorable events -- The Vimy pilgrimage and Berlin Olympics -- A great honour is savoured -- Pearl Harbor and its aftermath -- Our lives are changed forever -- Meagre compensation for liquidated assets -- Starting a new life in the East -- The elder statesman is still active -- Life's sunset |
Summary |
This book is a son's tribute to his father, delivered to readers after the death of both. As Jack Kagetsu laboured for a decade on his manuscript, travelling to archives, combing newspaper articles, and organizing his findings as well as his memories into writing, he must have felt that he was discovering parts of himself as well as his father. It is a very personal history. The book also has communal resonance for Japanese Canadians. It reflects reverence for elders and speaks to the accomplishments and losses of a generation of immigrant founders, the Issei. In the case of Eikichi Kagetsu both accomplishment and loss were of staggering proportions; perhaps no one else built so much, only to see it stolen in the mid-twentieth century odyssey of Japanese Canadians |
Analysis |
Biography: general |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (UVicSpac, October 14, 2020) |
Subject |
Kagetsu, Eikichi, 1883-1967.
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SUBJECT |
Kagetsu, Eikichi
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Businesspeople -- British Columbia -- Biography
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Japanese -- British Columbia -- Biography
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Biography: general.
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Japanese
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Businesspeople
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Congee.
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Logging.
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Shogun.
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Tokugawa ieyasu.
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Toyotomi hideyoshi.
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Steam donkey.
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British columbia.
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Oda nobunaga.
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Vancouver.
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Battle of mukden.
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SUBJECT |
British Columbia -- Biography
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Subject |
British Columbia
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781550586121 |
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1550586122 |
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9781550586138 |
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1550586130 |
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1550586114 |
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9781550586114 |
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