Interview with Margaret Eto

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Date: December 2, 2019  How to Interpret Date
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Place: Vancouver, BC

Description: Excerpts from Kimiko Karpoff's interview with Margaret Eto, former member of the Vancouver Japanese United Church English-speaking congregation. Content relates to experience as a child in internment camps at Rosebery and Bayfarm; return to Japan after the war; cultural change from Japan to Vancouver; the postwar congregation and activites (Nisei Fellowship, Baby Band, rummage sales, skits, choir); and influential members of the congregation.

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Margaret Eto was born in Vancouver and lived in Japantown (Little Tokyo) before the Second World War. During the war, her family was interned at Rosebery, BC The family moved to Japan after the war. Margaret returned to Vancouver in the mid-1950s and joined the Vancouver Japanese United Church. She served as secretary of the Board for the English-speaking congregation during the 1970s and 1980s.

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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 Margaret Eto  Source

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Physical Description: 1 sound recording (43:51 mins.)

Location of Original: Digital Archives

Creators/Contributors:
  • Interviewer: Kimiko Karpoff
  • Interviewee: Margaret Eto

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People:
  • Karpoff, Kimiko
  • Uchida, Chizu
  • Namba, Grace
  • Goto, Keiko

Subject(s):
  • Members of the congregation
  • Internment
  • Special events
  • Board members
  • Immigration
  • Dramatic productions

Language: English

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