The Memorial of the Canadian Japanese Association of the Province of British Columbia

The Memorial of the Canadian Japanese Association of the Province of British Columbia

Description

Title Proper PR0743 MS0023 BOX 4 FILE 7 ITEM 1
Date(s) 1916
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This item contains one letter written by the Canadian Japanese Association to the Provincial Government in 1916. The Canadian Japanese expressed several requests to benefit the new Japanese Canadian populations in British Columbia. The Association requested: 1. give the franchise to naturalised citizens of Japanese origin, 2. allow Japanese-Canadians to obtain hand logger’s and timber licenses, 3. “that the restrictions against the employment of Oriental labour, as far as Canadian naturalized citizens of Japanese origin are concerned, be removed” and, 4. to be placed “on the same plane” as naturalized citizens from any other country.
Name of creator
Jones, James William, 1869-1954 created this archive.
Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
This record was digitized in full.

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The Memorial of the Canadian Japanese Association of the Province of British Columbia
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Terminology

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