Hiroshima immigrants in canada 1891 1941 is a fascinating investigation of japanese migration to canada prior to the second world war it makes japanese language scholarship on the subject available for the first time and also draws on interviews diaries community histories biographies and the authors own family history starting with the history of the feudal fiefs of aki and bingo . Hiroshima immigrants in canada 1891 1941 is a fascinating investigation of japanese migration to canada prior to the second world war it makes japanese language scholarship on the subject available for the first time and also draws on interviews diaries community histories biographies and the authors own family history starting with . Hiroshima immigrants in canada 1891 1941 is a fascinating investigation of japanese migration to canada prior to the second world war it makes japanese language scholarship on the subject available to an english speaking audience for the first time and also draws on interviews diaries community histories biographies and the authors own family history. Hiroshima immigrants in canada 1891 1941. In 1998 patricia e roy reviewed several books in which chinese and japanese canadians combined archival projects and oral history to tell their own history she praised these active voices but called for more research on childhood and more analyses of class gender and generation relations1 jim wolf and patricia owen in yi fao speaking through memory