Japanese Committees to International Red Cross Letter

Japanese Committees to International Red Cross Letter

Description

Title Proper Japanese Committees to International Red Cross Letter
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1944
General material designation
From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.
Scope and content
A letter, dated February 19, 1944, from the New Denver Japanese Committee to Mr. E.L. Maag, International Red Cross, Montreal. The letter is a message of thanks for a shipment of Shoyu, Tea, and Miso that was went from Japan to the New Denver District.
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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Japanese Committees to International Red Cross Letter
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Terminology

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