General References
Library and Archives Canada, Department of Labour, Japanese Division, RG36.27 files.
Library and Archives Canada, RCMP, RG18 files.
Library and Archives Canada, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, RG22 files.
The New Canadian. Many articles on Tashme published during period March 1942 to 1950.
Report on the Administration of Japanese Affairs in Canada 1942-1944, Department of Labour, Hon H. Mitchell, MP, Minister of Labour & A. MacNamara, Dep Minister of Labour, Aug 1944
Removal of Japanese from Protected Areas. Report of BCSC October 1942 RG24-g-3-1-a.
TASHME A Japanese Relocation Centre, 1942-1946, W.J. Awmack
TASHME A Japanese Relocation Centre, Winnifred J. McBride, March 25, 1947.
Teaching in Canadian Exile by Frank Moritsugu and Ghost Town Teachers Historical Society, Toronto, 2001.
TASHME, Cst W R Cooper (in charge of Tashme Detachment, RCMP, May 1945) RCMP Quarterly Apr 1946.
Japanese Canadian Education During the WWII Internment, Wakako Ishikawa, Master’s Thesis, Dept of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning. University of Toronto, 2003.
Educating Japanese Internees During WWII: Tashme High School (1942-1946), Paul Kirschmann ED-B 423 (Y02) Dept of Educational History and Leadership, U of Victoria. March 3, 1992.
The Politics of Racism: The Uprooting of Japanese Canadians During the Second World War, Ann Gomer Sunahara James Lorimer & Company 1981
Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese during Second World War. Patricia Roy, J.L. Granatstein, Masako Iino, Hiroko Takamura. UT Press 1990.
Stories of My People, A Japanese Canadian Journal, Roy Ito, 1994.
A Black Mark: The Japanese Canadians in World War II. Mary Taylor, Oberon Press, 2004.
Dept of Labor Report on Administration of Japanese Affairs in Canada 1942-1944
Forging a New Hope – Struggles and Dreams 1848-1948: a Pioneer Story of Hope, Flood, and Laidlaw
Presence of a Past Community: Tashme British Columbia by L J Evenden and I D Anderson
From Peoples of the Living Land edited by J. V. Minghi. Tantalus Research Limited 1972.
The Exiles – An Archival History of the World War II Japanese Road Camps, Yon Shimizu, 1993.
Last Japanese Family to Leave Tashme. Unpublished essay by Tak Negoro, 2013.
Conversations with Tom Seki of Hamilton ON who was a hospital orderly and Boy Scouts leader. Tom also contributed photos of hospital and hospital staff.
UBC Special Collections materials. Fonds of Reverend Yoshio Ono, Margaret Sage Hayward.
United Church Archives materials
Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre Archives materials
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Archives materials.
The Enemy That Never Was, Ken Adachi, McClelland and Stewart, 1976.
Additional information on Tashme is available from the following resources:
From Sedai Legacy Project
- Videos of several residents of Tashme discussing their experiences in Tashme. Recorded in 2010 in Toronto. http://www.sedari.ca/archive/videos/subjects/tashme/
From Densho Project
- Video description of living conditions in Tashme. Shizuko Kadoguchi Interview Segment 8. Recorded February 15, 2005 in Toronto. Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Collection. http://archive.densho.org/main.aspx
- Densho website,->other resources->web resources, etc ->Family album project -> Masumi Hayashi Photography – Family Album Project -> Canadian concentration camps.
Videos
- NFB film: Of Japanese Descent. Film made in 1944-5 of life in Tashme internment camp.
- Watari Dori, Linda Ohama. Film of meeting after 50 years of Tashme high school teacher Winnifred Awmack and Irene Tsuyuki, one of her students.
- Henry’s Glasses, Brendan Uegama. 2010. An amusing fictional story of an eight-year-old boy with a lot of imagination who lived in Tashme in 1945.