The first time I tell this story out loud, I am standing in a large wooden hall in Sunshine Valley, a beautiful and mountainous place in southern British Columbia where dispossessed Japanese Canadian families were held during World War II. When the rows of shacks were first erected in 1942, the settlement was referred to as Tashme—a name that combines the first two letters of the surnames of three officers in the BC Security Commission, a group that was established to forcibly relocate tens of thousands of Japanese people in Canada. The place now serves as a remote holiday park with a tiny but important museum that attests to its history. I had been invited to come share my story by Kikiai Collaborative, a grassroots network of Japanese Canadians. Seated in front of me in the hall are hushed rows of internment survivors, their extended families and local residents ...