1950

Japanese Canadian living in house attic

Source:

  • Interview with Harold Kawasoe by Curator Pym Buitenhuis, 1994 – Campbell House Archive

In 1994 Harold Kawasoe visited Campbell House Museum and was interviewed. According to Mr Kawasoe, he had “lost everything” and was allowed to live with his wife by Clarence Woods of Hobbs Glass in the third story of the Duke Street house. They lived upstairs for one year, and he was also hired on by Woods. In the interview, Kawasoe claims that the offices on the west side of the building were divided by “coloured invitrolite or glass brick walls.”

Kawasoe Brothers in Toronto Left to right: Mits, Lil (Mune’s wife), Mune, unknown, Harold (Courtesy of Kawasoe Family)

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