Author: SANDO, TOM
Title: Wild Daisies in the Sand: Life in a Canadian Internment Camp
Description: Edmonton AB, NeWest Press. 2002, 1st Canadian Edition. (ISBN: 1896300510) Trade Paperback. Book, Wild daisies in the Sand reopens a chapter in Canadian history. This book is a series of diary entries beginning in 1941, when author Tom Sando was imprisoned in concentration camps, first in Petawawa and then Angler, Ontario (just outside Marathon, Ont.) -- a young Japanese Canadian imprisoned only because he was willing to stand and fight for his rights as a Canadian.The author's story, related through a series of his journal entries throughout his years of imprisonment. This is a story of loneliness, fear, and eventually friendship and hope.230p. illus. Fine.

Keywords: 1896300510 Canada World War Ii Japanese in Canada