File 67-25(1): Vancouver Centre: Japanese in BC, 1942

From this file, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.

This file contains correspondence and other documents concerning the following: military protection and anxieties about Japanese Canadians being spread out across Canada; Japanese Canadian women and children being forcibly relocated to Lumberton; restrictions on the possession of guns, radios, and cameras for Japanese Canadians; Colonel Goodwin Gibson and Hastings Park; the atrocious treatment of Canadian POWs and civilians in Hong Kong by Japan; "Japanese evacuation" in California and also restrictions on Japanese Americans elsewhere in the United States; the British Columbia Security Commission's Advisory Board; mass meetings in the Okanagan Valley region concerning "urban and agricultural interests" regarding Japanese Canadians being forcibly relocated to the region; the BCSC's acquirement of buildings at Hastings Park to use to detain Japanese Canadians; and the Canadian National Railways increasing capacity with more boarding cars to facilitate the forcible uprooting of Japanese Canadians; Orders-in-Council summaries; among other topics.

MacKenzie, Ian Alistair, 1890-1949 , politician, created this archive.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

The digitization level of this record is unknown.