Judo in Canada

Photographs and other media depicting and related to Judo in Canada.

Photographs donated by Ronald Desormeaux

• 
  Opening of the Kano Judo Club in Hull, Quebec in 1949. Left to right: Pierre Taberly, Fred Gagnon, Bernard Gauthier, Masao Takahashi , and Japanese delegates
• 
  Shigetaka Sasaki, Bernard Gauthier, Alphonse Moussette (Mayor of Hull), and Masao Takahashi at the 1950 Eastern Canadian Judo Championship
• 
  Bernard Gauthier, Masao Takahashi, and Shigetaka Sasaki at the Eastern Canadian Judo Championships in 1950
• 
  Bernard Gauthier (tori) demonstrating uchimata with Jeff Ethier (uke)
• 
  Bernard Gauthier and his wife Joan demonstrating a self-defence technique in the United States

Other donations

• 
  Portrait of Sasha Mehmedovic by Veronica Kvassetskaia-Tsyglan

Public domain

These photographs are in the public domain under Canadian copyright law because they were taken prior to 1949.

• 
  Shigetaka Sasaki in approximately 1930
• 
  Jigoro Kano (left) and Shigetaka Sasaki at Lake Louise, Alberta on their way to the Berlin Olympics in 1936
• 
  Photograph of RCMP participants and officials at the 10th Annual Canadian Judo Championships in Vancouver in 1937
• 
  Jigoro Kano (left) and Shigetaka Sasaki in Vancouver in 1938
• 
  Shigetaka Sasaki and family in approximately 1940
• 
  Japanese-Canadian judoka celebrating kagami biraki in the gymnasium at the Tashme internment camp, 1945