A teacher scored an $8 cardigan at a thrift store. It led his students to a piece of Japanese Canadi

A teacher scored an $8 cardigan at a thrift store. It led his students to a piece of Japanese Canadian history


When Mike Wood bought a cardigan for $8 at a thrift store in his hometown of Prince George, B.C., he knew nothing about the item's history.

Neither did the elementary school teacher expect it to pique so much curiosity in his fifth- and sixth-grade students after he hung the cardigan in his classroom, eventually leading to a school project on the early history of Japanese Canadians.

Wood's students at Bert Edwards Science and Technology School in North Kamloops discovered that the sweater's logo belongs to a Japanese Canadian baseball team, the North Kamloops Mohawks, established in the 1950s.

Wood says he's proud of his students' investigation, where they also discovered that most of the team's members were sent to internment camps during the Second World War.

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