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From a Moose Jaw railway worker to a cafe owner to a suspected spy: this man's family never knew the truth
Naka Nakane came to Moose Jaw, Sask., working as a railway worker. He ended up leaving his family and working to agitate against the American government, which considered him a Japanese agent. It took years for his family to learn his story, and to find out they were Japanese.
A fugitive flight into Canada made Saskatchewan a part of the history behind The Simpsons
Imagine this: an American named Abe flees the U.S. draft to Canada and has a son named Homer. That’s not the synopsis for an unaired Simpsons episode. That’s what really happened to the real-life inspirations for the Simpsons before they became big, yellow stars.