Because the B.C. Security Commission would not provide secondary education, the churches stepped in to establish a high school at Slocan, B.C. (photo: JCCC Collection)
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Hide Shimizu was the first Japanese to teach in the public school. She was a member of the delegation to Ottawa to seek the franchise. During the internment Hide was responsible for providing education to the interned children.
Hide was an active supporter for redress. She is giving a toast at the redress banquet the evening before the Ottawa Rally, 1988.
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| Class at Pine Creek Crescent School,
during the internment oat Slocan City.
Seated far right is author Joy Kogawa,
and in back row, far left, is broadcaster
and scientist David Suzuki.
(photo: Tom Oikawa)
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