By Nora O’Malley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Ucluelet, BC –The Ucluelet Japanese Canadian History Pavilion officially opened on a sun-soaked Aug. 29 when 103-year-old Frances Nakagawa cut the red ribbon alongside four women who were also held in internment camps during the Second World War. Nakagawa’s son Keith shared that his mom kept saying it was all “like a dream”. Located on the corner of Matterson Drive and Imperial Lane, the new interpretive site overlooks the Ucluelet Harbour; the very place where one of British Columbia’s most significant Japanese Canadian fishing communities once flourished. “During the 1930s, Japanese Canadian families made up half of Ucluelet’s population, living close to Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ (Ucluelet First Nation) families and European settlers in a community connected by work, friendship and a shared dependence on the…
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