Tommy Shoyama dies – Great Asian Canadian helped create Canada's universal health care
Tommy Shoyama was born in Kamloops BC. He was the editor of “The New Canadian” a Japanese-Canadian journal at the time of mass hysteria against the Japanese, and the internment of coastal Japanese Canadians. After the war, Shoyama worked in Saskatchewan with Tommy Douglas, helping to create the universal health care system that became the template for Canada. Shoyama was a nation builder for Canada following a time, when Canada and BC tried its utmost to destroy the Japanese Canadian community.
Here are some of the obituaries:
 Guelph Mercury (subscription) |
Shoyama helped create universal health care London Free Press, Canada – By CP. VICTORIA — Thomas Shoyama, who helped create the universal health care system as a deputy minister for Tommy Douglas, has died. … Thomas Shoyama, widely respected civil servant, dies Veteran senior civil servant dies at age 90 Thomas Shoyama played a key role in health-care debates |
| Civil servant who helped build universal health care dies A former senior official in Tommy Douglas's Saskatchewan government who played a role in the creation of medicare has died. Thomas Shoyama died Friday in … www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/12/28/health-pioneer.html – 27k – 2006-12-28 Pioneer of universal health care |
Civil servant who helped create medicare dies at 90
Victoria Times Colonist, Canada –
Thomas Shoyama,
one of Canada’s most respected civil servants, who helped create the
modern universal health care system as a deputy minster for Tommy Douglas …