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Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s description of how Toko Nuburi and his son [Shusei] worked to create the pole carvings in 1989. She also relates that seeing Toko, a man of the north of Japan, explains her own physical characteristics

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Summary: This portion of the interview is about Toki Miyashita’s description of how Toko Nuburi and his son [Shusei] worked to create the pole carvings in 1989. She also relates that seeing Toko, a man of the north of Japan, explains her own physical characteristics

Date Range: 1989-1990

Length: 00:06:41

Names: Burnaby Mountain Centennial Park; Burnaby Mountain Park; Kamui Mintara

Subjects: Celebrations - Centennial; Ceremonial Artifacts - Totem Poles; Woodworking Tools and Equipment

Geographic Access: Burnaby Mountain Conservation 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 ten of interview with Toki Miyashita

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Oral_Histories/_Unrestricted/MSS187-017/MSS187-017_Track_10.mp3

Heritage Christmas Craft Fair

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription56425

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1988

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1988

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Arts Council subseries

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 39853

Accession Number: BHS1998-06

Media Type: Textual Record

Newsletter - "Arts and Crafts News"

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription56476

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1988

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1988

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Arts Council subseries

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 39904

Accession Number: BHS1998-06

Media Type: Textual Record

Letter which appeared on the Agenda for the 1987 September 21 Meeting of Council re: Permanent Craft Market in Burnaby

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/councilreport14461

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 11616

Meeting Date: 5-Oct-1987

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 60

Item No.: 9

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

2 documents

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Report ID: 11616

Meeting Date: 5-Oct-1987

Format: Council - Manager's Report

Manager's Report No.: 60

Item No.: 9

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

Documents

Report 11616

5-Oct-1987 Meeting Minutes

Newsletter - "Arts and Crafts News" - Updates

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription56474

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1987

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1987

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Arts Council subseries

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 39902

Accession Number: BHS1998-06

Media Type: Textual Record

Newsletter - "Arts and Crafts News"

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription56475

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1987

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1987

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Arts Council subseries

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 39903

Accession Number: BHS1998-06

Media Type: Textual Record

Crafts Association of BC - Newsletters

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription56577

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1987

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1987

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Arts Council subseries

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 40005

Accession Number: BHS1998-06

Media Type: Textual Record

Craft Markets - Craft Persons, Budget and Entertainment

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription56421

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Arts Council subseries

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 39849

Accession Number: BHS1998-06

Media Type: Textual Record

Craft Markets - Publicity

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription56422

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Arts Council subseries

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 39850

Accession Number: BHS1998-06

Media Type: Textual Record

Plant Sale, Expo Pass and Spring Craft Markets

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription56423

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Arts Council subseries

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 39851

Accession Number: BHS1998-06

Media Type: Textual Record

Newsletter - "Arts and Crafts News" - Updates

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription56472

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Arts Council subseries

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 39900

Accession Number: BHS1998-06

Media Type: Textual Record

Newsletter - "Arts and Crafts News"

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription56473

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: Textual record

Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Burnaby Arts Council subseries

Physical Description: Textual record

Description Level: File

Record No.: 39901

Accession Number: BHS1998-06

Media Type: Textual Record

Guidelines Burnaby Royal Area

https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription4611

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: 1986-2009

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Girl Guides fonds

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 2 folders of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of several printed copies of the newsletter "Guidelines / Burnaby Royal Area". The newsletter was edited by Paulene Hall and contained up to date news items such as stories, events, activities and crafts as well as historical articles regarding guiding in Burnaby.

Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Girl Guides fonds

Series: Burnaby Girl Guides newsletters series

Description Level: File

Physical Description: 2 folders of textual records

Scope and Content: File consists of several printed copies of the newsletter "Guidelines / Burnaby Royal Area". The newsletter was edited by Paulene Hall and contained up to date news items such as stories, events, activities and crafts as well as historical articles regarding guiding in Burnaby.