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WWII Experience - Thomas Shoyama
Tom Shoyama, a nisei, graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1938, but like other nisei graduates at the time, he worked in a logging camp and as a bricklayer before becoming the editor of the New Canadian. He crusaded for equal rights for the nisei, was a member of the Nisei Intelligence unit in World War II and was the former president of the NJCCA. After the war. he joined Tommy Douglas’ CCF government in Saskatchewan as economic advisor and later became a senior economist in Ottawa. In 1975, he was appointed the Deputy Minister of Finance, one of the most powerful civil servants in the Canadian government. After retirement, he was professor at the University of Victoria. Today he resides in Victoria.
Opening of the Japanese Canadian exhibit at Kaslo Museum 1992. Tom Shoyama, a key figure in the exhibit, talks with then federal NDP leader, Audrey McLaughlin. (Photo: Dick Nakamura)
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Kaslo museum exhibit. (photo: Dick Nakamura)
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