Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Landscapes of Home follows the lives of two doctors who were at the New Denver and Lemon Creek Japanese-Canadian internment camps during the 1940s and 1950s. Through interviews with the principal characters Dr. Henry Ryusuke Shibata (1930-present) and relatives and acquaintances of Dr. Stuart Cooper Robinson (1921-2011), the documentary shows how these brave and driven individuals helped victims with Japanese heritage recover after their lives were ripped away from them. The story develops by mirroring the experiences of Dr. Robinson with Dr. Shibata, who both grew up as second- and third-generation immigrants in another land before they were forced to abandon their homes.
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00:00 Landscapes of Home: Two Lives Connected by History
01:16 Why Dr. Stuart Robinson Came to New Denver
02:19 Growing Up in Japan Before the War
03:30 Life in Vancouver's Little Tokyo
06:07 Experiencing Racism Before Internment
07:31 Anti-Asian Discrimination in British Columbia
08:40 The Robinson Family's Life in Japan
10:30 How War Changed Life in Japan
12:24 Expulsion from Japan and an Uncertain Future
13:20 Stuart Robinson's Journey Through Wartime Shanghai
16:05 Leaving Japan for Canada
16:49 Pearl Harbor and Divided Loyalties
18:17 Restrictions on Japanese Canadians After Pearl Harbor
19:30 Forced Removal from Vancouver
20:49 Hastings Park Holding Centre
21:45 Life in the Lemon Creek Internment Camp
24:03 Starting Over in Northern Ontario
26:57 Building Community in Lemon Creek
29:34 Japanese Canadian Labour Camps in Canada
30:54 Confronting Wartime Prejudice
31:29 Medical School and Military Service
32:06 Life Inside the Internment Camps During the War
33:09 Hiroshima and the End of the War
35:01 Why Japanese Canadians Could Not Return Home
36:22 Leaving Canada for Postwar Japan
37:04 Witnessing Hiroshima After the Atomic Bomb
39:09 Studying Medicine in Postwar Japan
39:27 Dr. Robinson Arrives in New Denver
40:53 Caring for Japanese Canadian Patients
42:09 Dr. Henry Shibata's Medical Journey
43:04 Treating Hiroshima Survivors
44:09 Cultural Exchange in New Denver
45:08 Closing the Tuberculosis Sanatorium
46:40 Becoming Specialists and Community Leaders
47:22 What Does Home Mean?
47:58 Returning to Japan After Decades Away
49:29 Canada's Apology for Internment
50:37 Reflections on Service, Identity, and Belonging
Landscapes of Home | TVO Docs
Landscapes of Home follows the lives of two doctors who were at the New Denver and Lemon Creek Japanese-Canadian internment camps during the 1940s and 1950s. Through interviews with the principal characters Dr. Henry Ryusuke Shibata (1930-present) and relatives and acquaintances of Dr. Stuart Cooper Robinson (1921-2011), the documentary shows how these brave and driven individuals helped victims with Japanese heritage recover after their lives were ripped away from them. The story develops by mirroring the experiences of Dr. Robinson with Dr. Shibata, who both grew up as second- and third-generation immigrants in another land before they were forced to abandon their homes.
#documentary #freedocumentary #history #humanrights #canadianhistory #japanese
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00:00 Landscapes of Home: Two Lives Connected by History
01:16 Why Dr. Stuart Robinson Came to New Denver
02:19 Growing Up in Japan Before the War
03:30 Life in Vancouver's Little Tokyo
06:07 Experiencing Racism Before Internment
07:31 Anti-Asian Discrimination in British Columbia
08:40 The Robinson Family's Life in Japan
10:30 How War Changed Life in Japan
12:24 Expulsion from Japan and an Uncertain Future
13:20 Stuart Robinson's Journey Through Wartime Shanghai
16:05 Leaving Japan for Canada
16:49 Pearl Harbor and Divided Loyalties
18:17 Restrictions on Japanese Canadians After Pearl Harbor
19:30 Forced Removal from Vancouver
20:49 Hastings Park Holding Centre
21:45 Life in the Lemon Creek Internment Camp
24:03 Starting Over in Northern Ontario
26:57 Building Community in Lemon Creek
29:34 Japanese Canadian Labour Camps in Canada
30:54 Confronting Wartime Prejudice
31:29 Medical School and Military Service
32:06 Life Inside the Internment Camps During the War
33:09 Hiroshima and the End of the War
35:01 Why Japanese Canadians Could Not Return Home
36:22 Leaving Canada for Postwar Japan
37:04 Witnessing Hiroshima After the Atomic Bomb
39:09 Studying Medicine in Postwar Japan
39:27 Dr. Robinson Arrives in New Denver
40:53 Caring for Japanese Canadian Patients
42:09 Dr. Henry Shibata's Medical Journey
43:04 Treating Hiroshima Survivors
44:09 Cultural Exchange in New Denver
45:08 Closing the Tuberculosis Sanatorium
46:40 Becoming Specialists and Community Leaders
47:22 What Does Home Mean?
47:58 Returning to Japan After Decades Away
49:29 Canada's Apology for Internment
50:37 Reflections on Service, Identity, and Belonging
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