Rosebery Japanese Committee to Ferdinando de Kobbe Letter

Rosebery Japanese Committee to Ferdinando de Kobbe Letter

Description

Title Proper Rosebery Japanese Committee to Ferdinando de Kobbe Letter
Date(s) 1943
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
A letter, dated December 2, 1943, from the Rosebery Japanese Committee to Ferdinando de Kobbe, Consul for Spain, (Vancouver). The letter thanks de Kobbe for his recent visit to Rosebery, and references a recent request for the Rosebery residents to move to Harris Ranch, noting that they decline to do so. The letter also mentions the labour that has been put into the Rosebery houses and lands by the Japanese residents, and again requests improvements in the water supply for the houses.
Name of creator
Henry Wakabayashi is the founder of Pacific Liaicon Ltd., he has helped many major projects such as the Vancouver Sky Train, the expansion of the Vancouver International Airport and the Metro Vancouver drinking water treatment program.
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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Rosebery Japanese Committee to Ferdinando de Kobbe Letter
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