This is a LUNA project brought to you by:
Supported by:
Project manager: Miriam Manley, Arts Revelstoke
Animation artist: Sarah-Jane Spurr
Website creator: Katrina Van Wijk
Heritage consultation and research: Cathy English, Revelstoke Museum and Archives
Artistic direction: Rob Buchanan
Japanese research, support and translations: Tomoaki Fujimura
Resources used:
- Kanada no Makutsu – Brothels of Canada, 1909
- Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West, 1887 -1920 – Kazuhiro Oharazeki
- Subverting Exclusion, Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885 – 1928 – Andrea Geiger
- Sandakan Brothel No.8 – Yamazazaki Tomoko
- Japanese Death Poems, Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death – Yoel Hoffmann
- Artifacts mentioning Jennie were provided by the Revelstoke Museum and Archives
The police log book is a physical artifact and the photographs of newspaper articles are available in PDF format in the open collection of BC newspapers in the UBC database.
Photo Credits:
- Japanese picture brides – Nikkei National Museum 1997.200
- Boat/ Immigration Steamer Empress of Japan early 1900s – Nikkei National Museum 2001.6.16
- Front Street, Revelstoke, circa 1900 – Revelstoke Museum and Archives P1819
- Women in a brothel in Revelstoke, circa 1900 – Revelstoke Museum and Archives P5095
- Wah Chung: Oyster and Chop House Restaurant, 1918 – Revelstoke Museum and Archives P174
- Photo of Gravestone – Rob Buchanon
