Interview with Rev. Tadashi Mitsui

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Place: Vancouver, BC

Description: Excerpts from Kimiko Karpoff's telephone interview of Rev. Tadashi Mitsui of Lethbridge, Alberta. Content relates to the beginnings of the post-war Vancouver Japanese United Church; experience as a newly ordained minister and new Canadian; congregational activities (bazaar, Christmas dinners); prominent church families; Sunday school and Grace Namba; and reflections on marginalization and victimization.

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Rev. Tadashi ("Tad") Mitsui was born in Japan and came to Canada in 1957. He was ordained as a United Church minister by BC Conference in 1958, and served as minister for the Vancouver Japanese United Church from 1957 to 1968. Following that pastorate, he served as overseas personnel for the church, teaching in Lesotho, in Africa, until 1974. Rev. Mitsui returned to Canada in the early 1980s, working with the Canadian Council of Churches in Toronto, and serving in pastoral and administrative work in Montreal. After retiring, he moved to Lethbridge, Alberta.

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Collection/Fonds Title: Vancouver Japanese United Church fonds

File Title: Oral history interviews and transcripts  Source

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Record Title: Interview with Rev. Tadashi Mitsui  Source

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Physical Description: 1 sound recording (42:21 mins.)

Location of Original: Digital Archives

Creators/Contributors:
  • Interviewer: Kimiko Karpoff
  • Interviewee: Rev. Tadashi Mitsui

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People:
  • Mitsui, Tadashi
  • Karpoff, Kimiko
  • Namba, Grace
  • Imai, Gordon
  • Woman's Missionary Society
  • Shimizu, Kosaburo
  • McWilliams, Roy
  • Uchida, Chizu

Subject(s):
  • Members of the congregation
  • Clergy--Ordained ministers
  • Church buildings
  • Special events
  • School children
  • Immigration
  • Internment

Language: English

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