Nitobe Memorial Garden
Traditional Japanese garden with a pond, tea house and bridge symbolizing Pacific friendship.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Nitobe Memorial Garden in Vancouver follows Inazo Nitobe, a scholar and diplomat who died in Victoria in 1933 after devoting his career to bridging Japan and the West. It traces the stone lantern his friends shipped across the Pacific in his memory, its vandalism during the anti-Japanese fear that swept Canada after Pearl Harbor, and the local Japanese Canadian gardeners who helped rebuild the garden starting in 1959.
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