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Abatement of Penalties and Interest

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 2100

Meeting Date: 5-Oct-1981

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 47

Item No.: 4

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 2100

Meeting Date: 5-Oct-1981

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 47

Item No.: 4

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 2100

5-Oct-1981 Meeting Minutes

Abatement of Penalties and Interest

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 1679

Meeting Date: 26-Jan-1981

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 7

Item No.: 3

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 1679

Meeting Date: 26-Jan-1981

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 7

Item No.: 3

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 1679

26-Jan-1981 Meeting Minutes

Abatement of Penalties and Interest

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 2420

Meeting Date: 1-Mar-1982

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 13

Item No.: 5

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 2420

Meeting Date: 1-Mar-1982

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 13

Item No.: 5

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 2420

1-Mar-1982 Meeting Minutes

Abatements of Penalties and Interest

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 11059

Meeting Date: 2-Feb-1987

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 8

Item No.: 7

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 11059

Meeting Date: 2-Feb-1987

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 8

Item No.: 7

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 11059

2-Feb-1987 Meeting Minutes

Abatements of Penalties and Interest

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 10361

Meeting Date: 17-Feb-1986

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 12

Item No.: 4

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 10361

Meeting Date: 17-Feb-1986

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 12

Item No.: 4

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 10361

17-Feb-1986 Meeting Minutes

Abatements of Penalties and Interest

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 8464

Meeting Date: 21-Jan-1985

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 6

Item No.: 4

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 8464

Meeting Date: 21-Jan-1985

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 6

Item No.: 4

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 8464

21-Jan-1985 Meeting Minutes

Abatements of Penalties and Interest

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 3120

Meeting Date: 27-Feb-1984

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 15

Item No.: 2

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 3120

Meeting Date: 27-Feb-1984

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 15

Item No.: 2

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 3120

27-Feb-1984 Meeting Minutes

Abatements of Penalties and Interest

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 87

Meeting Date: 31-Jan-1983

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 7

Item No.: 7

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 87

Meeting Date: 31-Jan-1983

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 7

Item No.: 7

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 87

31-Jan-1983 Meeting Minutes

Abatements of Penalties and Interest - 1989

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 7717

Meeting Date: 6-Feb-1989

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 11

Item No.: 2

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 7717

Meeting Date: 6-Feb-1989

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 11

Item No.: 2

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 7717

6-Feb-1989 Meeting Minutes

Abatements of Penalties and Interest for 1987

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 9926

Meeting Date: 25-Jan-1988

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 7

Item No.: 4

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 9926

Meeting Date: 25-Jan-1988

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 7

Item No.: 4

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 9926

25-Jan-1988 Meeting Minutes

Acquisition of Interest in Parcel "A" Ref. Plan 2937 of Lot 1 Part of Lot 79 Group 1, Deer Lake Park

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 10459

Meeting Date: 7-Apr-1986

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 24

Item No.: 6

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 10459

Meeting Date: 7-Apr-1986

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 24

Item No.: 6

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 10459

7-Apr-1986 Meeting Minutes

Conflict of interest - "Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, Amendment Bylaw No. 5, 1980," Bylaw # 7471

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 1019

Meeting Date: 21-Apr-1980

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 1019

Meeting Date: 21-Apr-1980

Format: Council - Mayor/Councillor/Staff Report

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 1019

21-Apr-1980 Meeting Minutes

Interest Charges - Arrears and Delinquent Taxes

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 2733

Meeting Date: 12-Jul-1982

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 44

Item No.: 18

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 2733

Meeting Date: 12-Jul-1982

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 44

Item No.: 18

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 2733

12-Jul-1982 Meeting Minutes

Interest Rate on Land Sold by Agreement of Sale

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 3406

Meeting Date: 9-Jul-1984

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 46

Item No.: 17

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 3406

Meeting Date: 9-Jul-1984

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 46

Item No.: 17

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 3406

9-Jul-1984 Meeting Minutes

Letter from British Columbia Interest Research Group which appeared on the agenda for the 1989 January 03 meeting of Council (Item 2b) regarding domestic hazardous waste proposal (Supplementary)

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 7575

Meeting Date: 9-Jan-1989

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 3

Item No.: 7

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 7575

Meeting Date: 9-Jan-1989

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 3

Item No.: 7

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 7575

9-Jan-1989 Meeting Minutes

Provincial Budget Announcements of 1985 March 14 and 15 of Interest to Local Governments

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 8763

Meeting Date: 29-Apr-1985

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 31

Item No.: 3

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 8763

Meeting Date: 29-Apr-1985

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 31

Item No.: 3

Collection/Fonds: City Council and Office of the City Clerk fonds

Documents

Report 8763

29-Apr-1985 Meeting Minutes

Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 3

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1969-1990

Length: 00:04:54

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita and her family’s move to Burnaby in 1969 to an apartment near Brentwood Mall. She tells about continuing to demonstrate origami in schools and teach Ikebana in the community.

1 audio

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita and her family’s move to Burnaby in 1969 to an apartment near Brentwood Mall. She tells about continuing to demonstrate origami in schools and teach Ikebana in the community.

Date Range: 1969-1990

Length: 00:04:54

Subjects: Persons - Volunteers; Arts

Historic Neighbourhood: Vancouver Heights (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Brentwood Area

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: February 27, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Toki Miyashita, conducted by Rod Fowler. Toki Miyashita was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is about Toki Miyashita’s family’s internment during WWII, her awakening interest in Japanese culture after the war, her subsequent interest in teaching others about Japanese crafts and arts, and becoming a helpful intermediary between Burnaby and visitors from Japan. The interview explores her interest in the Ainu of Japan and their possible link to the aboriginals of BC, her impressions of the Ainu carver Nuburi Toko, and her involvement in the events surrounding the creation of the sculpture “Playground of the Gods” for Burnaby Mountain. The interview also contains interesting details about the art of Japanese flower-arranging. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: Toki Miyashita was born in Richmond B.C., ca. 1935, at the Nelson Brothers “fishery”, a second generation Canadian descended from the Oikawa family who settled on Don and Lion Islands (Oikawa-shima). In 1942 the Japanese Canadians in BC were forcibly moved from the coast and their belongings confiscated. Toki Miyashita, her parents, two brothers, and grandparents were first taken to Hastings Park where her father was separated from the family to work in road camps, and the rest of the family were interned in New Denver. Her resourceful grandmother moved the family to land outside the internment camp, growing a large garden from seeds brought with her. In 1946 the family moved to Kamloops and in 1958, after finishing high school, Toki Miyashita moved to Montreal to be with relatives and a small Japanese community. At this time she became interested in Japanese culture and took a Japanese language course at age 22. She learned about Japanese flower-arranging (Ikebana), paper folding (Origami), silk doll making (from a Russian Jew), and how to wear a kimono. She began demonstrating these arts in schools and to other groups, which she continued doing when she, her husband and two young children moved to Burnaby in 1969. Toki Miyashita has been called an unpaid “ambassador” of Japanese culture to the Lower Mainland. She has acted as liaison between Burnaby and her sister city Kushiro in Japan, which involved her in the creation of the Ainu sculpture “Playground of the Gods” on Burnaby Mountain for Burnaby’s Centennial. Toki Miyashita is a recognized Master in Ikebana Sogetsu, a school of flower-arranging, and has served on the board of the Vancouver Ikebana Association. She also served on Burnaby’s Family Court in the 1980s.

Total Tracks: 11

Total Length: 01:34:10

Interviewee Name: Miyashita, Toki

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and computerization in business in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track three of interview with Toki Miyashita

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Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 4

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1969-1990

Length: 00:07:26

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s explanation about the practice and art of Japanese flower-arranging (Ikebana) and her specific school or discipline Ikebana Sogetsu. She talks about the meanings of the material used.

1 audio

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s explanation about the practice and art of Japanese flower-arranging (Ikebana) and her specific school or discipline Ikebana Sogetsu. She talks about the meanings of the material used.

Date Range: 1969-1990

Length: 00:07:26

Subjects: Arts

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: February 27, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Toki Miyashita, conducted by Rod Fowler. Toki Miyashita was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is about Toki Miyashita’s family’s internment during WWII, her awakening interest in Japanese culture after the war, her subsequent interest in teaching others about Japanese crafts and arts, and becoming a helpful intermediary between Burnaby and visitors from Japan. The interview explores her interest in the Ainu of Japan and their possible link to the aboriginals of BC, her impressions of the Ainu carver Nuburi Toko, and her involvement in the events surrounding the creation of the sculpture “Playground of the Gods” for Burnaby Mountain. The interview also contains interesting details about the art of Japanese flower-arranging. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: Toki Miyashita was born in Richmond B.C., ca. 1935, at the Nelson Brothers “fishery”, a second generation Canadian descended from the Oikawa family who settled on Don and Lion Islands (Oikawa-shima). In 1942 the Japanese Canadians in BC were forcibly moved from the coast and their belongings confiscated. Toki Miyashita, her parents, two brothers, and grandparents were first taken to Hastings Park where her father was separated from the family to work in road camps, and the rest of the family were interned in New Denver. Her resourceful grandmother moved the family to land outside the internment camp, growing a large garden from seeds brought with her. In 1946 the family moved to Kamloops and in 1958, after finishing high school, Toki Miyashita moved to Montreal to be with relatives and a small Japanese community. At this time she became interested in Japanese culture and took a Japanese language course at age 22. She learned about Japanese flower-arranging (Ikebana), paper folding (Origami), silk doll making (from a Russian Jew), and how to wear a kimono. She began demonstrating these arts in schools and to other groups, which she continued doing when she, her husband and two young children moved to Burnaby in 1969. Toki Miyashita has been called an unpaid “ambassador” of Japanese culture to the Lower Mainland. She has acted as liaison between Burnaby and her sister city Kushiro in Japan, which involved her in the creation of the Ainu sculpture “Playground of the Gods” on Burnaby Mountain for Burnaby’s Centennial. Toki Miyashita is a recognized Master in Ikebana Sogetsu, a school of flower-arranging, and has served on the board of the Vancouver Ikebana Association. She also served on Burnaby’s Family Court in the 1980s.

Total Tracks: 11

Total Length: 01:34:10

Interviewee Name: Miyashita, Toki

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and computerization in business in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track four of interview with Toki Miyashita

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-017/MSS187-017_Track_4.mp3

Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 5

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory520

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1969-1990

Length: 00:07:05

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s involvement in the Multicultural Society, flower-arranging groups, and her own practice and willingness to respond to requests for presentations. She describes how traditional rules govern doll-making, Ikebana and the wearing of the kimono.

1 audio

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s involvement in the Multicultural Society, flower-arranging groups, and her own practice and willingness to respond to requests for presentations. She describes how traditional rules govern doll-making, Ikebana and the wearing of the kimono.

Date Range: 1969-1990

Length: 00:07:05

Subjects: Arts; Education

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: February 27, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Toki Miyashita, conducted by Rod Fowler. Toki Miyashita was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is about Toki Miyashita’s family’s internment during WWII, her awakening interest in Japanese culture after the war, her subsequent interest in teaching others about Japanese crafts and arts, and becoming a helpful intermediary between Burnaby and visitors from Japan. The interview explores her interest in the Ainu of Japan and their possible link to the aboriginals of BC, her impressions of the Ainu carver Nuburi Toko, and her involvement in the events surrounding the creation of the sculpture “Playground of the Gods” for Burnaby Mountain. The interview also contains interesting details about the art of Japanese flower-arranging. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: Toki Miyashita was born in Richmond B.C., ca. 1935, at the Nelson Brothers “fishery”, a second generation Canadian descended from the Oikawa family who settled on Don and Lion Islands (Oikawa-shima). In 1942 the Japanese Canadians in BC were forcibly moved from the coast and their belongings confiscated. Toki Miyashita, her parents, two brothers, and grandparents were first taken to Hastings Park where her father was separated from the family to work in road camps, and the rest of the family were interned in New Denver. Her resourceful grandmother moved the family to land outside the internment camp, growing a large garden from seeds brought with her. In 1946 the family moved to Kamloops and in 1958, after finishing high school, Toki Miyashita moved to Montreal to be with relatives and a small Japanese community. At this time she became interested in Japanese culture and took a Japanese language course at age 22. She learned about Japanese flower-arranging (Ikebana), paper folding (Origami), silk doll making (from a Russian Jew), and how to wear a kimono. She began demonstrating these arts in schools and to other groups, which she continued doing when she, her husband and two young children moved to Burnaby in 1969. Toki Miyashita has been called an unpaid “ambassador” of Japanese culture to the Lower Mainland. She has acted as liaison between Burnaby and her sister city Kushiro in Japan, which involved her in the creation of the Ainu sculpture “Playground of the Gods” on Burnaby Mountain for Burnaby’s Centennial. Toki Miyashita is a recognized Master in Ikebana Sogetsu, a school of flower-arranging, and has served on the board of the Vancouver Ikebana Association. She also served on Burnaby’s Family Court in the 1980s.

Total Tracks: 11

Total Length: 01:34:10

Interviewee Name: Miyashita, Toki

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and computerization in business in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track five of interview with Toki Miyashita

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-017/MSS187-017_Track_5.mp3

Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 6

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/oralhistory521

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date Range: 1976-1990

Length: 00:07:36

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s trips to Japan in 1976 and 1980, visiting family in Myagi Prefecture, their response to her and her daughter, and her impression of Japan

1 audio

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s trips to Japan in 1976 and 1980, visiting family in Myagi Prefecture, their response to her and her daughter, and her impression of Japan

Date Range: 1976-1990

Length: 00:07:36

Subjects: Travel

Interviewer: Fowler, Rod

Interview Date: February 27, 1990

Scope and Content: Recording is of an interview with Toki Miyashita, conducted by Rod Fowler. Toki Miyashita was one of eleven participants interviewed as part of the SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee's oral history series titled, "Voices of Burnaby". The interview is about Toki Miyashita’s family’s internment during WWII, her awakening interest in Japanese culture after the war, her subsequent interest in teaching others about Japanese crafts and arts, and becoming a helpful intermediary between Burnaby and visitors from Japan. The interview explores her interest in the Ainu of Japan and their possible link to the aboriginals of BC, her impressions of the Ainu carver Nuburi Toko, and her involvement in the events surrounding the creation of the sculpture “Playground of the Gods” for Burnaby Mountain. The interview also contains interesting details about the art of Japanese flower-arranging. To view “Narrow By” terms for each track expand this description and see “Notes”.

Biographical Notes: Toki Miyashita was born in Richmond B.C., ca. 1935, at the Nelson Brothers “fishery”, a second generation Canadian descended from the Oikawa family who settled on Don and Lion Islands (Oikawa-shima). In 1942 the Japanese Canadians in BC were forcibly moved from the coast and their belongings confiscated. Toki Miyashita, her parents, two brothers, and grandparents were first taken to Hastings Park where her father was separated from the family to work in road camps, and the rest of the family were interned in New Denver. Her resourceful grandmother moved the family to land outside the internment camp, growing a large garden from seeds brought with her. In 1946 the family moved to Kamloops and in 1958, after finishing high school, Toki Miyashita moved to Montreal to be with relatives and a small Japanese community. At this time she became interested in Japanese culture and took a Japanese language course at age 22. She learned about Japanese flower-arranging (Ikebana), paper folding (Origami), silk doll making (from a Russian Jew), and how to wear a kimono. She began demonstrating these arts in schools and to other groups, which she continued doing when she, her husband and two young children moved to Burnaby in 1969. Toki Miyashita has been called an unpaid “ambassador” of Japanese culture to the Lower Mainland. She has acted as liaison between Burnaby and her sister city Kushiro in Japan, which involved her in the creation of the Ainu sculpture “Playground of the Gods” on Burnaby Mountain for Burnaby’s Centennial. Toki Miyashita is a recognized Master in Ikebana Sogetsu, a school of flower-arranging, and has served on the board of the Vancouver Ikebana Association. She also served on Burnaby’s Family Court in the 1980s.

Total Tracks: 11

Total Length: 01:34:10

Interviewee Name: Miyashita, Toki

Interviewer Bio: Rod Fowler returned to university as a mature student in the 1980s after working about twenty years in the field of economics and computerization in business in England, Europe and Western Canada. He graduated with a BA from SFU in both History and Sociology in 1987, his MA degree in Geography in 1989, and his PhD in Cultural Geography at SFU. He taught courses in Geography, Sociology, History and Canadian Studies at several Lower Mainland colleges, before becoming a full time member of the Geography Department at Kwantlen University College.

Collection/Fonds: SFU/Burnaby Centennial Committee fonds

Series: Centennial Oral History project series

Transcript Available: Transcript available

Media Type: Sound Recording

Web Notes: Interviews were digitized in 2015 allowing them to be accessible on Heritage Burnaby. The digitization project was initiated by the Community Heritage Commission with support from City of Burnaby Council.

Audio Tracks

Track six of interview with Toki Miyashita

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-017/MSS187-017_Track_6.mp3

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Conflict of interest - "Burnaby Zoning Bylaw 1965, Amendment Bylaw No. 5, 1980," Bylaw # 7471

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Interest Rate on Land Sold by Agreement of Sale

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Letter from British Columbia Interest Research Group which appeared on the agenda for the 1989 January 03 meeting of Council (Item 2b) regarding domestic hazardous waste proposal (Supplementary)

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Provincial Budget Announcements of 1985 March 14 and 15 of Interest to Local Governments

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Interview with Toki Miyashita by Rod Fowler February 27, 1990 - Track 3

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