The Joy Kogawa House has been named to 
  
Heritage Vancouver's 2006 Top Endangered sites 

Their website description is as follows:

10. Kogawa House (1913)
1450 West 64th Avenue 

In late fall 2005, City Council approved a 120-day demolition delay to 
allow sufficient funds to be raised for the purchase and preservation of the 
Kogawa House as a cultural and literary landmark. 

The Land Conservancy of BC (TLC) has stepped in to help raise the over 
one million dollars required to buy the house and pay for the repairs and 
renovations necessary to convert it to a writers’ centre. However, if 
efforts to purchase the property within the 120-day period (which ends March 
31) are unsuccessful, the current private owner will demolish the house.

The Kogawa House has special literary significance as the childhood 
home of acclaimed Canadian author Joy Kogawa. Through its depiction in her 
novel, Obasan, the house has a strong symbolic and historical association with 
the internment of Japanese-Canadians during WWII. The novel recalls this 
episode in Canadian history through the eyes of a child. Kogawa’s childhood home 
and the cherry tree in the back yard figure prominently in the novel. 

Heritage Vancouver joins with other arts and literary groups across 
Canada to support the proposed writers’ centre.

http://www.kogawahouse.com/

For a complete listing of all ten properties on the Heritage Vancouver 
2006 Top Endangered Sites, see the link
http://www.heritagevancouver.org/topten/topten2006.htm