| Wild Daisies in the Sand: Life in a Canadian Internment Camp Contributor(s): Sando, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 1896300510 ISBN-13: 9781896300511 Publisher: NeWest Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - History | Modern - 20th Century - History | Military - World War Ii |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003386713 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6" W x 8.52" (0.57 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 1940's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Wild Daisies in the Sand is a series of diary entries beginning in 1941, when the author was imprisoned in concentration camps, first in Petawawa and then Angler, Ontario—a young Japanese Canadian, like many others, deemed dangerous by the Canadian government because of his race. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sando, Tom: - Tom Sando was born in 1922 in British Columbia. When his mother died, he was sent to Japan to be raised and educated by his relatives. He returned to Canada at the age of sixteen in 1938, and in 1941 was imprisoned for four years in Canadian concentration camps for being Japanese and protesting the Canadian governments unfair treatment of Japanese Canadians. After the war, Sando began working as a building foundation specialist in Winnipeg, Manitoba and later moved to Edmonton, Alberta where he worked with a large piling company until he retired after almost thirty years. |