The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre is proud to announce the completion of our 2025-2026 digitization project, Tomoni: Living with Ability, Atsu’s Story. Digital scans and descriptions for over 900 photographic and textual materials from the Uyeda Family of Nakusp collection (NNMCC 2025.1) are now available for viewing at nikkeimuseum.org

Spanning from the 1920s to 2020, the Uyeda Family of Nakusp collection captures the experiences of Yonezo and Yukiye Uyeda and their four children, Masayuki, Teruko, Atsushi, and Michiyo. The family lived in the Queensborough neighborhood of New Westminster, BC, from the 1920s until the onset of the Second World War when the Canadian Government forcibly relocated the family to Kaslo, BC, then to the New Denver internment camp. They settled in Nakusp, BC in 1947, having been prevented from returning to New Westminster due to wartime restrictions extended after the Second World War ended.

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