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Len Rigg remembers fighting in the Second World War, D-Day

A sense of relief flooded over overseas. Len Rigg as he walked, shoulHuge crowds lined the sideder to shoulder, with his chums walks as the soldiers marched by. through the main streets of Berlin. “I could hear people shoutThe Second World War had ing, ‘Winston Churchill, Winston come to an end about a Churchill,’” says Rigg, For a month prior, and he was 96, this year’s honoured link to gladly taking part in one veteran for Richmond’s video of the most poignant of Rigg, Remembrance Day cermoments in history — a victory emonies. “There was a lot victory march through the march of excitement.” shattered remains of the German It was a far cry from the capital. scenes just over a year earlier on It marked the end of a long June 6, 1944 when Rigg was one and arduous campaign for Rigg, of the thousands of Allied troops an engineer in the British Army crossing the English Channel to who was keen to return home to land on the beaches of Normandy his family in the U.K. after years on D-Day. For him, that was a journey into the great unknown, and a world away from his life as a young woodworker in the north west of England. “I knew it wasn’t going to be a picnic,” Rigg says, adding that when he signed up for military service in his early 20s, he naively thought what lay ahead would be more of an adventure than what turned out to be a hard and dangerous slog through France, Holland, Belgium and finally Germany. But it was waiting for the command to start the invasion of France that proved to be one of the most excruciating experiences. To keep Rigg’s unit busy they were tasked with retrieving surviPHILIP RAPHAEL/RICHMOND NEWS vors from bombed out buildings Len Rigg married his wife in London. Kathleen on the two-days leave he “But when they knew the invahad in 1941.

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A Remembrance Day ceremony will be held Monday morning at the cenotaph, located on the east side of City Hall Monday. A military parade will start marching from Minoru Park towards the city hall cenotaph at 10:20 a.m. The parade includes the Royal Canadian Legion, Canadian Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans

Association members, representation from public safety agencies and cadet organizations, a colour party and a veterans platoon. The official ceremonies at the cenotaph will begin at 10:40 a.m. There will be two minutes of silence at 11 a.m., which will be followed by wreath-laying. After the ceremonies are complete, the parade will march off and the public is invited to a Remembrance Day reception in the

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Len Rigg, 96, fought during the Second World War and marched through Berlin after the war had ended. sion was coming off, we were sent away,” he says, reclining in a comfy chair in his suite at The Maple Residences in Steveston, his smart blue blazer providing the perfect backdrop for his shiny row of service medals. “We knew the invasion was going to happen, but when, nobody knew.” Making it worse was the inclement weather. Rigg was in an encampment — a marshalling area for D-Day forces on the outskirts of London — for just a few days when the heavens opened. “It absolutely threw it down. And we had slutch (thick, heavy mud) up to here,” Rigg says,

pointing to midway up his shin. “You can imagine, we’re all in army boots, thousands of guys. It was a real mess.” On the actual day of departure, the train journey to the coast where the Allied armada was waiting for them was meant to throw anyone watching troop movements off track. “I saw the ocean in the west, then I saw it on the east,” Rigg says, recalling his view out the train window as it zig-zagged its way to Dover. And when the train pulled into the final station, Rigg noticed all the doors on one side of the carriages were locked. see Caen page 5

city hall galleria. This is a free event where people can listen to music by the R.C. Palmer vocal jazz ensemble and essonance chamber choir, as well as warm up with coffee and snacks. There will also be a Remembrance Day display assembled by the City of Richmond Archives, Friends of the Richmond Archives and Richmond Public Library.

Portions of No. 3 Road near City Hall will be closed for approximately two and a half hours to facilitate the event. There will be minimal temporary traffic disruption along Granville Avenue and Minoru Boulevard during the post ceremony parade. The service will be simulcast into City Hall Council Chambers for those who may not be able to stand outside for the service.

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Caen: Hit with shrapnel, drove home realities of war Continued from page 3 There was just one way out — on to the station platform and the nearby row of waiting boats. “You couldn’t escape,” he says, chuckling quietly. While the crossing was largely uneventful, a sense of foreboding hung thick in the air. “I was wondering what was going to happen, what we were going to meet,” he says. “I was For a video of a bit worried about the Normandy mines on the beaches.” landing The destination was the town of Arromanches-les-Bains where the code name for the landing area was Gold beach. In the engineers corps, Rigg had been trained to set up Bailey and pontoon bridges. But he had also been instructed in lifting and setting mines. “I wasn’t too happy with that,” he said of the early training. Thankfully, he wasn’t given the task of clearing the beach of explosives as his unit was pushed inland quickly, while the retreating German forces set up a counter attack position in the town of Caen. “Caen was absolutely flattened. I don’t think there were two bricks stuck together. It was just a mass of rubble. It was a battle day after day in Caen.” The job he and his unit had to complete was clearing an adjacent field of mines so it could serve as an aircraft landing strip. That’s when the deadly realities of war hit home.

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Canadian troops march onto Juno Beach on D-Day as part of the Normandy Landings. “I got hit with shrapnel. It penetrated my helmet and I got a lump on my head,” he says, running his fingers over the impact area. “Of course, I didn’t go to the medics. It was more dangerous to go see the medics than it was to stay where I was.” Caen finally fell and Rigg and his unit moved on through the rest of Europe, and eventually that memorable day in Berlin. “It was great to think that was the end,” he says, adding part of his duties leading up to the parade was helping build a stage outside of the city were child actor Mickey Rooney was set to entertain the troops. “(Rooney) was young then,” Rigg says

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he political circus that is Toronto Mayor Rob Ford delivered another spectacle Tuesday with Ford’s admission that, yes, he smoked crack cocaine and no, he doesn’t see that as a reason to quit. I’ve admitted my mistakes, Ford said. I’ve apologized. Now time for him to get back to work. The operatic level of denial that has characterized the Ford spiral downwards over the past six months continued unabated. Ford’s revelation this week that he’s smoked crack and carried on in “drunken stupors” is a surprise to nobody. That he believes it would be possible to continue to carry out his duties as head of Canada’s largest city indicates how out of touch he’s become. Sure, Ford needs help. But so does the City of Toronto, where the business of the people has been sideswiped for the past six months by the train wreck of the mayor’s demons. Not to mention his clumsy attempts to repeatedly lie and deny his way out of his troubles. The sordid story, played out with a cast of criminal associates, against a backdrop of call-in talk shows and late-night TV jokes, has been both an embarrassment and a source of concern. Ford isn’t the only one who should be doing some soul searching this week. The Ford Nation, who so distrusted the “elites” that they would rather vote for someone cast from Trailer Park Boys as their elected leader, also have a lot to answer for. Being willing to go look at potholes isn’t everything, even in civic politics. Integrity is a necessary quality for any leader. Ford has repeatedly proven that he has none. It’s way past time for him to step aside.

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Learn more war history The Editor, I belong to Operation Legacy, a group of members of The War Amps Child Amputee Program (CHAMP) dedicated to preserving Canada’s military heritage and teaching other young people how to carry on the remembrance message. This year, the War Amps is celebrating a major anniversary. Ninety-five years ago, First World War amputee veterans formed the Amputations Association of the Great War. The name was changed to the War Amputations of Canada when Second World War amputees joined their ranks. These men later started CHAMP to assist young amputees like me. In addition to having had the privilege of learning about Canada’s military heritage from a young age, I also know what it is like to live without a limb — a strong bond that I share with war amputee veterans. Because of this, I feel it is my duty to ensure the stories of war are preserved and its lessons never forgotten. I have been fortunate to be involved with Operation Legacy by participating in local Remembrance Day ceremonies and laying wreaths on behalf of The War Amps. I have also donated documentaries from The War Amps Military Heritage Series to the Cranbrook Public Library. I encourage everyone — particularly young people — to learn more through these documentaries, which are available at a cost-recovery price at waramps.ca. Nicole Byford Operation Legacy Member, Cranbrook

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Remembering origins of Remembrance It’s November, and once again Canadians from all corners wear a bright red poppy in remembrance of Canada’s War Dead. So many of us take this annual ritual for granted. Given the passage of time, it’s easy to miss the fact that many Canadians have little social context to explain the event. In August 1914, war broke out on continental Europe, involving virtually every nation in the region. It eventually spread to involve virtually every nation on the globe. During the 1,534 days of what became known as the Great War, more than 11 million people lost their lives. Most, but not all, were active service personnel, soldiers, sailors and aviators. History records great battles — 2nd Ypres, (where the first gas attacks were launched against Canadian forces), the Somme, Passchendaele, Gallipoli, the Marne, and countless other actions. Less well known is the daily casualty rate, averaging 2,000 per day for the entire duration of the war, known as “wastage.” By 1918, Germany was starving, her navy in mutiny. France was virtually bled white, her army having mutinied in 1917. This left the armies of the British Empire to struggle to the ultimate collapse of the German army during the last hundred days of the war. During this period,

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Canada, Australia and New Zealand’s land forces were the effective strength of the Empire. Recognizing the futility of further conflict, a German delegation entered the Foret de Compeigne in French territory on Nov. 5, and finally, at 5:40 a.m. on Nov. 11, an armistice was signed by all parties. This ended the fighting but not the war. (The Treaty of Versailles accomplished that end, signed in June 1919). The armistice called for “hostilities to cease at the eleventh hour.” Thus Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) gained eternal significance. The butcher’s bill of the war was beyond comprehension. Each life was a real life lost, captured by John McRae’s In Flanders Fields, saying “We are the Dead. Short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow; loved and were loved...” Ordinary people, lost in the furnace of history; lives unlived, love ungiven, children unborn. For Canada, more than 60,000 young souls were lost on the battlefields of Europe

and Asia, and in the oceans around the world. To reconcile this loss through public observance, King George V commissioned Armistice Day in 1919, and the first such event was held at Buckingham Palace that same year. Armistice Day was practised in Canada from 1921 to 1930, when an Act of Parliament created Remembrance Day, on Nov. 11 of each year. And so, across the nation this coming Monday, people will gather at local memorials and cenotaphs to observe Remembrance Day. Do not consider this a glorification of war; it is not. Nor consider it an homage to militarism; it is nothing of the sort. It is a chance to gather together as a common people, and remember the lives lost; period. More than 100,000 Canadians dead, in service to us all. During the service on Monday, you will hear the Act of Remembrance: “They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old; age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.” At that point, please repeat: “We will remember them.” Matthew McBride is the Chair of the Richmond Remembrance Day Committee.

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Questions for bridge project The Editor, Questions that need to be answered before they require the George Massey Tunnel to be removed, then the Fraser River to be dredged to accommodate the largest sea-going ships to dock at the Fraser Surrey Docks, or any other Fraser River destination, are as follows: 1. Why is there not a full cost benefit analysis required, along with a full environmental impact assessment on the effects this would have on the Fraser River estuary and its ability to remain a wetland of international significance for wildfowl and fish, as designated at the Ramsar Convention? 2. What is the projected costs of removing the George Massey Tunnel and who would be paying for it? 3. What would be the cost of deepening the Fraser River to the depth required for the deepest sea-going ships projected to dock on the Fraser River above the George Massey Tunnel? 4. What are the annual dredging costs presently required to accommodate ships above the George Massey Tunnel? 5. What did it cost to install the training walls that were part of the Trifurcation Project to direct as much of the flow of the Fraser River down the shipping lanes to reduce the amount of dredging required? 6.What will be the additional costs to maintain the deeper channel as proposed and who will pay it? 7. Will dredging still be subject to the Department of Fishery Dredging Guidelines, which prohibits dredging dur-

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Japanese tears of war taste ironic, not bitter Interned family bode emotional farewell to German neighbours who were allowed to stay in Richmond BY A LAN C AMPBELL

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e was just three-years-old when one of the darkest days in Richmond’s history arrived. Kiyo Domai has little or no memory of his family being one of around 2,000 ordered to vacate the city before April 1, 1942. Even so, there was one painful, emotional vision, etched onto his mom’s memory and passed onto him, that lingers when asked about the Japanese internment of the Second World War. “We had German neighbours, who, I’m told, we were very friendly with,” said Domai, now 74. “My mother remembered telling the German family we had to leave and everyone was crying. I don’t know what happened to them. That part was strange.” To this day, that irony — a family originating from the country the world, including Canada, was at war with being allowed to continue with their lives, while the Japanese, in the wake of the infamous Pearl Harbor attack of Dec. 1941, had to ship out — is not lost on Domai. And although he’s not even remotely bitter — something he thanks his father, Nobuo, for — he often wonders what life might have been like if the Domais, including his mom, Hisae, and newly-born and slightly frail sister, Toshiko, were never frog-marched from their idealic home in the former Eburne community, where the River Rock casino now stands. “We had our own house, a detached one I think, which was rare at the time,” said Domai, whose fisherman grandfather, Kyujiru Domai, immigrated to Steveston from Mio village, near Wakayama, at the turn of the century, followed by Kiyo’s parents around 1930. “My father was a gardener, while all of our relatives lived in Steveston, in company homes for the cannery.

“We had a big yard with an orchard. We grew cherries, plums, apples and flowers, and wealthy people on their way to the racetrack at Lansdowne used to stop and buy the fruit and flowers from a stand my dad set up. I guess we had a pretty nice life.”

hat charmed life, however, was turned upside down — as it was for the 21,079 Japanese-Canadians in B.C. (around 2,000 from Richmond) ordered to evacuate the coast — when Canada declared war on Japan and Japanese-Canadians were deemed a threat to national security. The Domai family, including Kiyo’s grandfather, was packed off to a near abandoned, former mining town, Sandon, in the Kootenays, while Kiyo’s father was sent to work on the road camps along the Yellowhead Highway from Kamloops to Edmonton. The winters of north-east B.C. were, of course, harsher than anything Richmond could throw at the Domais. In the first winter, Kiyo’s grandfather died of pneumonia. “It was a godforsaken place; only seeing daylight for about four hours a day,” he said. “(My grandfather) was used to living his life on a boat. He found it tougher than us.” Now with their father back by their side — he was allowed to return for the grandfather’s funeral — the Domais moved in 1943 onto a more permanent internment site at Lemon Creek, in the Slocan Valley, before the displaced families were given the ultimatum around 1945 to move back to Japan or shift even further east over the Rocky Mountains. “There was a lot of emotion at that point for families; it tore people apart,” said Domai. “We went to live and work in Alberta on a sugar beet farm in Taber, near Medicine Hat. The winters there were even more severe, though.” It was there that a third and fourth child was born into the Domai family: another

daughter Hiroko and a second son, Koji. “We learned very quickly how to farm and how to survive out there and my father also worked at the local vegetable cannery and became the cook there; my dad could take on anything,” said Domai.

he Domais saw out the rest of the ’40s in Alberta, still in exile. But, with the war long over, Japanese-Canadians were allowed in ’49 to roam freely once more and Domai’s father embarked on a scouting mission in 1950 back to Richmond. Despite failed attempts to buy back the confiscated, former family home in Eburne, Domai’s father made the call to settle back in the city that they were unceremoniously punted from eight years previous. “I think that was tough for my dad, not being able to get the house back,” said — Kiyo Domai. “Instead, we moved into a two-storey home on stilts on the water at Garry Point Park, near where Pajo’s concession stand is today. “But my dad was not the kind of man to be bitter and if he was, he didn’t show it. “I’m grateful to him for that, because we would’ve carried that around with us for the rest of our lives. It can poison your mind.” Domai’s mom lived to 96, his dad to 93. Both lived in Steveston for the rest of their lives, while Domai went on to attend Richmond High School, UBC and became a lifelong teacher in Surrey before retiring. He now sits on the Steveston Buddhist

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Temple executive and volunteers much of his free time there. Asked about feeling a sense of injustice from the internment, Domai said, “The only kind of negative emotion I feel is that I never got a chance to really know my grandfather. “When I reached 61, that was the age he died, that was a big moment for me.”

t’s just 12 letters — “Shikata ga nai.” But its meaning — often used by JapaneseCanadians when summing up internment — captures the spirit of a people caught in the crossfire. Its translation: “Can’t be helped,” or “there’s nothing that can be done about it.” Despite losing her mother to cancer and 15-year-old sister to rheumatic fever while interned in Alberta, lifelong Richmondite Alice Domai Kokubo, 84, offers up “shikata ga nai” when reliving internment. “What the government did to us, it was because of the war, it had no choice. That’s what we mean by ‘shikata ga nai,’” said Kokubo, older cousin to Kiyo Domai. And given that some among the mass evacuation of Japanese-Canadians were given only 24 hours’ notice — cars, cameras and radios were also confiscated for “protective measures” and a curfew imposed — only makes their “shrugging of the shoulders” attitude all the more remarkable. see Hiratas page 13

“It was a godforsaken place; only seeing daylight about four hours a day.”

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The funeral cortege for Kiyo Domai’s grandfather, Kiyujiru, prepares to set off in Sandon, B.C. Kiyujiru died of pneumonia during the family’s first winter in internment.

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Kiyo Domai, left, and his older cousin, Alice Kokubo, stand in front of a photo of the 1,200 B.C. Japanese-Canadian fishing boats confiscated during the internment of 1942. The photo is on display at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery as part of the Nikkei Fishermen of the BC Coast exhibition. Steveston natives Domai and Kokubo were interned as children.

A Royal Canadian Navy officer questions Japanese-Canadian fishermen while confiscating their boat during the internment of 1942. Of the 1,200 or so boats confiscated across B.C., roughly 75 per cent belonged to Stevestonbased Japanese-Canadian fishermen.

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Internment ripped out the heart of Steveston

Village rendered a ghost town after forced exodus BY ALAN CAMPBELL

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When more than 2,000 JapaneseCanadians were ordered from their homes in Steveston, they left with a hole in their hearts and inflicted a gaping wound on the local economy. Within hours of the last person of Japanese descent departing the previously booming fishing village on April 1, 1942, Steveston was rendered a ghost town. Before internment, there were 62 recognized businesses in the village; 47 of which were owned and operated by the Japanese, 14 were Caucasian and one Chinese. By April 2, Steveston — with 80 per cent of its population gone — was totally devoid of Japanese, leaving behind a skeletal business community including a meat market, Bill’s Barbers, BC Electricity Company, BC

Telephone and Steveston Bakery. Gone were a plethora of general stores, confection stores, grocery stores, hardware, tailors, drug stores, shoe repair and real estate. “These places were the heart of Steveston; the heart of the community was lost,” said Bill McNulty, veteran City of Richmond councillor, local historian and author of Steveston: A Community History. “These places were the meat and potatoes and it also meant people didn’t bother coming to Steveston from outside of the village to shop.” Articles and adverts ran in the local newspaper every week for four years, urging people to be loyal to Steveston. “The loss to the fishing industry in Steveston was obviously devastating,” said McNulty. “Of the 1,137 vessels confiscated, about 75 per cent of them belonged to

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A barren scene from Steveston in the ’40s shows how the village’s business community was decimated following the JapaneseCanadian internment of 1942.

Steveston-based fishermen. “They were the economy of the village and they weren’t around anymore.” From his research, McNulty feels Steveston never fully recovered from the internment.

“I think it picked up slightly into the mid and late ’40s, but it was never the same,” he said. “Steveston was the centre of all things in Richmond for many years, and I don’t think it ever really recovered to where it once was.”

Hiratas: Family forced to abandon ‘nice, large’ home Continued from page 12 orn to Steveston fisherman father Ken Sakiyama and mother Aiko Atode, Kokubo was 12 when the internment order was made. Her family enjoyed a carefree life in Steveston, all living on her grandfather’s fruit and vegetable farm on Railway Avenue. “Father went fishing, my grandfather and the women worked on the farm; everything was very easy,” said Kokubo, who attended Lord Byng school. “I was in Grade 6 at the time, I had lots of friends,” Kokubo said. Like her younger cousin Kiyo, Kokubo and her family were shipped off to Sandon, where they stayed for two years. A few years living in Lemon Creek and then, when the war was over, a similar path as the Domai family was beaten — further east into Canada and to Taber, Alberta. In December 1949, the Kokubos moved back to Richmond, but the farm she grew up on had been confiscated.

“My father went back to being a fisherman. I was 19 by that time,” said Kokubo, who still lives close by at No. 1 and Francis roads. “We rented a home on No. 1 Road and Steveston Highway. It was very strange moving back, it wasn’t the same Steveston I remembered as a child.”

Hap Hirata, with Steveston Harbour in rear. Hirata, including his fisherman father, were ordered out of Steveston along with 2,000 fellow JapaneseCanadians.

f Ihei and Yae Hirata harboured any bitterness about having the life they’d worked hard for ripped from them, they managed to bottle it up and put in on a high shelf, well beyond the reach of their son, Hap. “Mom and dad never really talked about it,” said Hap, who was interned aged three, along with older brother Kazuo, 18, a local fisherman like his father, and sister Hatsyou, 19, who worked in the cannery. “I would try to talk to (my father) and ask him, but if he was feeling angry or whatever, he never showed it. He would say, ‘just carry on,’ or ‘it’s all water under the bridge,’ or ‘what’s done is done.’

“And the farm we lived on was owned by a German family.” In 1950, the Hiratas moved back to Richmond, after Hap’s father heard there was a move to bring the fishermen back to Steveston. “My dad had no problems moving back. He went back with my sister to get things set up,” said Hirata. “The cannery offered a house for very low rent. They spent a month there getting things ready for the rest of us. “Dad did go back to look at our old house, but he never tried to buy it or anything.” Hirata, now 75, has spent the rest of his life growing up in Steveston, attending Lord Byng and Richmond High. “There was more discrimination there than there ever was living in Alberta,” he recalled. Now, a retired sales manager and well-recognized volunteer in the Steveston community, Hirata teaches judo at the Steveston Judo club, which was started in 1953 by 10 Japanese fishermen. He was one of the club’s first students.

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“Maybe deep in people’s hearts there is (some bitterness). If there was, my parents must have buried it and used it to make them work harder and be stronger.” Forced to abandon their “nice and large” two-level home at the end of No. 2 and Dyke roads — which Hap’s father built himself — the Hiratas were “lucky” in that they got to choose their exile location. “It was a very sad situation

and a very traumatic time for so many people,” said Hirata. “We chose to go to Alberta and work on a sugar beet farm. The only thing I remember was this being one big adventure. I got to go on the train!” And, like the irony that befell Kiyo Domai and his family, Hirata found himself surrounded by Germans while in Alberta. “I remember most of my friends in my class were German,” he said.

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