Last week Vancouver Sun's Shelley Fralic asked readers to send their nominations for Canada's 25 Most Important houses. I quickly sent in my nomination for Kogawa House. Here's what she wrote:
Todd Wong's nomination for the list is the modest 1915 South Vancouver childhood home of Canadian writer, Joy Kogawa.
In 1942, when Kogawa was six, she, her brother and her parents were turfed from the house and sent to a Japanese internment camp in the B.C. interior.
The house, later auctioned off by the government, was featured in Kogawa's acclaimed autobiography Obasan, and was recently saved from demolition after a national campaign by The Land Conservancy.
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... In 1942, when Kogawa was six, she, her brother and her parents were turfed from the house and sent to a Japanese internment camp in the BC interior.