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Tori Hamatani

Participates in 1 Session

Sessions in which Tori Hamatani participates

Thursday 26 May, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM | 20 minutes

Nestled between Johnson Peak, best known as the location of Hope Slide, and Mount Potter, is the former site of the largest Japanese Canadian internment camp – Tashme. Bound by steep and treacherous mountains and days-long treks to anywhere by foot. A single highway - The Crowsnest - cuts through the valley, built by the incarcerated labour.  Today, this site is a sleepy leisure retreat ironically named the Sunshine Valley, BC, populated with DIY structures by those who willfully leav...