British Columbia Security Commission

Connection with H.R. MacMillan - to investigate. bca_bc_security_commission_report_1942.pdf

Created to oversee the uprooting and removal of Japanese Canadians in the coastal area of British Columbia, socail programs, Hastings Park, and eventually the internment camps. It was administered by three men: Austin C. Taylor, Frederick J. Mead, and John Shirras.

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OrgName	British Columbia Security Commission
Desc	Agent of the Custodian.

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Names (4)

Organizations (2)

Japanese Liaison Committee

Leonard Frank Photos

Places (1)

Tashme

Collections

Oral Histories (12)

Tom Shoyama, interviewed by Ann Sunahara, 01 January 1977

Hiro Kanashiro, interviewed by Ann Sunahara, 01 January 1977

Rintaro Hayashi, interviewed by Ann Sunahara, 04 December 1977

Amy Leigh, interviewed by Jane Covernton, 30 March 1973

Howard Shimokura, interviewed by Carolyn Nakagawa, 15 March 2018

Ann Sunahara Dictating EAA Doucuments, interviewed by Ann Sunahara, 01 January 1976

Winifred Awmack, interviewed by Ruth M. Chambers, 21 February 1985 (3 of 3)

Ann Sunahara Reading Letters Intercepted by the Censor, interviewed by Ann Sunahara, 03 September 1977

Kaye and David Hayashida, interviewed by Heather Read, 26 November 2015

Charles "Chuck" Hachiro Tasaka, interviewed by Carolyn Nakagawa, 16 March 2018

Leslie Barnwell, interviewed by Kaitlin Findlay , 28 February 2019

Tom Shoyama, interviewed by Ann Sunahara, 27 August 1990

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Terminology

Readers of these historical materials will encounter derogatory references to Japanese Canadians and euphemisms used to obscure the intent and impacts of the internment and dispossession. While these are important realities of the history, the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective urges users to carefully consider their own terminological choices in writing and speaking about this topic today as we confront past injustice. See our statement on terminology, and related sources here.