Letters from citizens regarding JC fishing licenses, schools, farmland, registration, 1940 police and military conference, letter to Prime Minister

Letters from citizens regarding JC fishing licenses, schools, farmland, registration, 1940 police and military conference, letter to Prime Minister

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Title Proper F0 GR1222 BOX 153 FILE 09
Date(s) 1939
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Unsigned letter from citizen angry at potential renewal of Japanese Canadian fishing licences while ‘thousands of white men ready to man these boats’; letter to Minister of Education from citizen protesting presence of Japanese Canadian children in schools; correspondence between B.C. Police Commissioner and RCMP regarding use of Cumberland detachment as registration office for Japanese ‘enemy aliens’; Memo detailing stats on ‘persons of Japanese racial origin’, petition from Matsqui Municipal Council to prevent Japanese Canadians to purchase of farm land; Resolution from October 1940 conference re: security of Japanese Canadians, their possession of firearms, mob violence, military service; December 1941 letter to Prime Minister regarding racist “excitement among the public.”
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Letters from citizens regarding JC fishing licenses, schools, farmland, registration, 1940 police and military conference, letter to Prime Minister
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