The Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre has completed its digitization of Families on the Coast: K&M Boat Works and the Oikawa Island collection.
The collection’s primary focus is on the Madokoro and Oikawa families who who individually made significant contributions to BC’s fishing industry in the early 1900s, survived the unjust treatment during the Second World War, and returned to the coast in the 1950s.
The digitization of Families on the Coast: K&M Boat Works and the Oikawa Island collection was digitized with support from the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre through its BC History Digitization Program.
For more information about the 2019/2020 BC History Digitization Program Projects, click here.