Presentation Title
Location
Room 306, School of Social Work
Start Date
29-9-2018 10:15 AM
End Date
29-9-2018 12:00 PM
Presentation Types
Paper
Abstract
In the summer of 1942, hundreds of male Japanese-Canadians from families interned in British Columbia would find themselves employed by the Ontario Farm Service Force on farms throughout southwestern Ontario. These young men would face prejudice and many challenges but also acceptance and friendship. One area that provided an important common interest was baseball and the Japanese-Canadian farm labourers would play highly-attended exhibition games against local teams. This presentation explores the events and process that led to a particularly memorable game at the end of the harvest season.
Bio Statement
Art Rhyno is a Librarian at the University of Windsor and serves on the Board of OurDigitalWorld, where he has been an active member since its beginnings as part of the Ontario Digital Library twenty years ago. With his wife, Laurie, Art also spent nearly a decade in the newspaper business via The Essex Free Press, the second oldest family-owned community newspaper in Ontario at the time, and has worked on newspaper digitization projects with the Internet Archive and the World Bank.
Included in
Internment, racism and baseball in southwestern Ontario: Japanese-Canadian farm labourers during World War II.
Room 306, School of Social Work
In the summer of 1942, hundreds of male Japanese-Canadians from families interned in British Columbia would find themselves employed by the Ontario Farm Service Force on farms throughout southwestern Ontario. These young men would face prejudice and many challenges but also acceptance and friendship. One area that provided an important common interest was baseball and the Japanese-Canadian farm labourers would play highly-attended exhibition games against local teams. This presentation explores the events and process that led to a particularly memorable game at the end of the harvest season.
