Canada Vignettes: The Dentist

19785 minFilm: Documentary

Direction: Rosemarie ShapleyJudith Potterton

Production: Wolf KoenigRobert Verrall

A Japanese-Canadian who practices dentistry in Montréal recalls his childhood in a prison camp in British Columbia.

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Subject categories

  • History - Canada - 1920-1945 > Asian CanadiansCanada at WarJapanese ExperiencePortraits
  • Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Asian OriginsBritish ColumbiaDiscriminationHistorical PerspectivesJapanese OriginsPortraits
  • Canada - Images of a Country > PopulationVignettes
  • War, Conflict and Peace > World War II - The Home Front
  • Diversity > Identity
  • History > World War II

Credits

director
Rosemarie Shapley
Judith Potterton
producer
Wolf Koenig
executive producer
Robert Verrall
narrator
Michael Kane