Fraser Valley

Metadata

PlaceName	Fraser Valley
Desc	The region of the Fraser River basin in southwestern British Columbia. Often used to refer to the region downstream from Hope, including the Fraser Lowland in the Lower Mainland (see Greater Vancouver).

Collections

Oral Histories (5)

Bob and Sue Hori, interviewed by Erin Yaremko, 16 June 2016

Tom Shoyama, interviewed by Ann Sunahara, 01 January 1977

Ellen Crowe-Swords, interviewed by Kyla Fitzgerald, 27 July 2017

Rintaro Hayashi, interviewed by Ann Sunahara, 04 December 1977

Kevin and Suzy Higo, interviewed by Josh Labove, 06 May 2016

Other Archival Files (41)

White Farmers Demand They Be Kept Off Land

Vets to Get Former Jap Lands in Valley

Jap Properties Not Easy To Rehabilitate

Seized Jap Farms Far Under Valued

Ian Mackenzie Fonds

January

File 557-20-7: Land settlement and colonization in British Columbia - general file. 1950-1966. File.

File 8: General., [1942-1945]

June

Vancouver News Herald

Correspondence of the Chairman

VS 1942

Move to Bar Japs from Owning Land in Province after War

MS00689 SERIES 5 BOX 12

File 7: Report of the Pacific Co-operative Union, 1942

Would Ban Japanese from Fraser Valley

769 Jap Farms Bought For Bc War Veterans

Jap Farm Transfer Battled

Veterans May Get Japs Farms

March

Longer Leases For Jap Land

Jap Property Claims Board to Tour Valley

File 8: Small Fruit Acreage, 1920-1928; Total Tons, Values, B.C. Berries, 1925-1931 … [includes Agricultural Statistics, 1940]

File 7-01: National Japanese Canadian Citizens Association Collection: Reminiscences

Fraser Valley Fruit Industry

P 1946

MP Urges Ban on Use of Trucks by Japs Between Fruit Seasons

May

Ottawa Announces Plan to Transfer Japanese Farmlands to War Veterans

F0 GR0900 BOX 1

Ottawa Hitch Delays Sale Of Jap Farms

File 6-14: Kyodo kumiai undo jugonen no kaiko - The Co-operative Movement: Fifteen Years in Retrospect. Yamaga Yasutaro

October

Vancouver Sun

Replacing Japs On Land Creates Acute Problem

June

F0 GR1222 BOX 169

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Places (6)

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.