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1948-1979 (Creation)
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Barbara Buchanan was born in 1931 to Gertrude Woelfle (1898-175) and Victor Buchanan (1899-1981). She was the youngest of three siblings, with a brother Ross Buchanan (?-1997) and sister Phyllis Buchanan Orr (1929-?). Her maternal grandparents were shoe magnate Wellington Ervin Woelfle (1873-1949) and Lydia McEwan (1873-1952).
Barbara was born and raised in Kitchener, attended Ovenden School in Barrie, and subsequently Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. After school she moved to Hamilton, and worked for the Blood Donor Clinic and the Canadian Red Cross, before moving back to Kitchener to live in the family home. Barbara had many pastimes, including supporting the Hamilton Tiger Cats, golfing and curling at the Westmount Golf and Country Club, and driving her Triumph TR at British Sport Car Club events.
Barbara lived in the home at 123 Young Street that was occupied by her grandparents, and later her aunt, until her passing in 2022.
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25 items of correspondence from Kuwa Usagawa to Olive Woelfle between the years 1948-1957. There is also one item of correspondence from Kuwa's sister Suzuo from 1979.
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Donated by the estate of Barbara Buchanan in 2022.
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From the context of the letters, Kuwa attended the Macdonald Institute with Olive in the 1920's to study nutrition. She returned to her home in Tokyo in 1928. During the Second World War, her home in Tokyo was bombed, and she moved to the family's country home in Kanagawa Prefecture. From 1948 onward Olive sent Kuwa letters and care packages to help her family deal with the scarcities of food and other goods after the Second World War. The packages included clothing which Kuwa indicated they had not been able to buy since The Second Sino-Japanese War, and food such as sugar, flour, eggs, powdered milk and cocoa which was either not available or was prohibitively expensive. Olive also sent treats such as candies which some people on their community had never eaten, and baby items for Kuwa's grandson. Kuwa died sometime before 1979.
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Created by JB October 2024.
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