Letter - Department of Mines and Resources

Letter - Department of Mines and Resources

Description

Title Proper Letter - Department of Mines and Resources
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1942
General material designation
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Scope and content
Item is a letter, dated June 13, 1942, written by J.H. Mitchell, Senior Assistant Engineer, Department of Mines and Resources (Surveys and Engineering Branch) to Jisaburo Wakabayashi when he was resident at Work Camp B 23, Thunder River, BC. The letter is a response to a request from Wakabayashi for 12 men to transfer from Thunder River to a work camp where construction is occurring. The request for transfer is denied by Mitchell on the grounds that there is no work at any of the other camps.
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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Letter - Department of Mines and Resources
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