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<P><B><FONT face=verdana size=2>New owners of Marpole
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<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>By John
McCrank-Contributing writer </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>A modest 1920s bungalow in
Marpole has been the subject of a lot of controversy
over the past few months, with a group fighting to have
it designated as a cultural heritage site against the
wishes of the owner, who wants to complete renovations
and settle in. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>"New owners moved in and
started making renovations, which caused all hell to
break loose," said Coun. Jim Green. "The city ran in and
put a stop work order on the house because they didn't
have the proper permits." </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>The house was once the
childhood home of Canadian author and member of the
Order of Canada, Joy Kogawa. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>During World War II, Kogawa
and her family, like other Japanese-Canadians, were
forced by the federal government to leave their home and
relocate to an internment camp. Their Marpole house was
then auctioned off at a bargain price by the
government's "Custodian of Enemy Alien Property."
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<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>Kogawa wrote about the
house in her 1983 autobiographical novel Obasan, which
tells the story of the internment of Japanese-Canadians
during the war. That book has been called one of the 10
most important Canadian novels and is mandatory reading
in many Canadian schools. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>When Kogawa visited the
house at 1450 West 64th Ave. last August and saw that it
was for sale, she and supporters tried to raise enough
money to buy it, but another buyer came forward with the
money first. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>Last December, when it was
discovered that renovations were being done on the house
without a permit, the Joy Kogawa Homestead Foundation
contacted both the city and the media in order to
increase the pressure to have it preserved. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>When the stop work order
was issued, the new owners complied and also donated the
three doors and 12 windows that they had removed to the
city for safe keeping. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>"I think the owners have
found the intensity of both the media coverage and the
intensity of the opinions that were being expressed very
challenging and I don't think that some of it was quite
fair," said city heritage planner Terry Brunette.
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<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>"People had not realized
the position that these people were in," he said, adding
that the new owners did not know the cultural or
historical significance of the house when they bought
it, but have a great appreciation for the house and have
no plans to demolish it. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>That's good news for the
Kogawa Homestead Foundation, which is made up of members
across the country. The foundation plans to continue
raising money with the goal of buying the house sometime
in the future. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>About $30,000 has been
raised since Christmas, and the foundation will continue
to raise the rest of the approximately $480,000
potentially needed to buy the home, said member Anton
Wagner, a filmmaker and cultural historian at York
University in Toronto. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>"Apparently, [the new
owner] is reading Joy's novel, Obasan, to find out what
all of the fuss is about," said Wagner. "So hopefully
she would be able to appreciate the emotional and
historical significance the house has for the
Japanese-Canadian community and anybody else [...] who
thinks we shouldn't forget about [the interment of
Japanese-Canadians], which a lot of people have."
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>If the owner, who doesn't
speak English and has declined to be interviewed, ever
wants to sell the house, the foundation hopes to buy it
and use it as a memorial to Japanese-Canadian
experiences during World War II, and as a writer's
retreat, said Vancouver heritage conservationist Michael
Kluckner. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=verdana size=2>"We are losing these places
that are connected with significant individuals in our
past, so I'm pleased that the Kogawa house is standing
at least," he said. </FONT></P>
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