| title | Thomas Sando (Tamio Kuwabara) fonds |
| general material designation | [textual and graphic material] |
| extent | 5 composition books, 3 cartoons, 1 manuscript, and 1 dictionary. |
| date | 1942-1947 |
| scope and content | This fonds consists of four series: Internment Camp Diaries (1942-1947); Angler Internment Camp illustrations (1943-1944); Misty Skeena River manuscript (n.d.); and Kuwabara Japanese-English Dictionary (published 1906). |
| biography | Thomas Sando was born on 29 March 1922 in Skeena River, British Columbia. His younger brother Shigeru Kuwabara was also born in Skeena River on 6 February 1924. When his mother died at an early age, he was sent to Japan to be raised and educated by his relatives. He returned to Canada at the age of sixteen in 1938, and in 1942 was imprisoned for four years in Canadian internment camps for being Japanese and protesting the Canadian government’s unfair treatment of Japanese-Canadians. |
| number | 2012.18 |
| organisation | Nikkei National Museum |
| access | Open |