Roy Sakata, a former teacher, vice principal, school principal in Prince Rupert and Richmond, and Principal and Member of the Economic Development Committee of the Gitxsan Community of Gitsegukla, has returned as a member of Ladner Rotary. President Brian Coe presents Roy with his Rotary pin.
Roy was born in a WWII Japanese internment camp in B.C. in 1942. After being released, his family relocated to Quadra Island where his father, who was born in Richmond, worked as a fisherman.
During his time living in northern B.C. and working with the Gitxsan First Nation, Roy was formally adopted into the wolf clan and given a Gitxsan name that means “white fingers” --an image of his hands coated in chalk dust after a lesson at the blackboard.
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| Richard Shantz and President Brian Coe welcome Roy Sakata as he returns to Ladner Rotary |