nnm_f253_volume_s1757_file_f153

From this file, LOI has digitized a textual record.

File consists of one typescript history of Japanese Canadians produced and published by the National Japanese Canadian Citizens Association History Committee in 1958 and printed in English. The 35 page history is presented in four phases, tracing the beginnings of Japanese Canadian society until the 1930s, the period after 1941 and the forced removal from the West Coast, issues of post-war dispersal, deportation and relocation, and the return and re-establishment of Japanese Canadians from 1949 to 1958.

Jitaro Tanaka was born November 27, 1905 in Shiga prefecture, Japan. His parents Jikichi Tanaka and Akuri Kawasaki had six children. About 1906 Tanaka's father Jikichi immigrated to Canada, coming to Vancouver. Jitaro Tanaka joined his father in Vancouver in 1911, aged five years old. Tanaka's wife to be, Sumiko Suga, was born in Vancouver April 5, 1912. Her parents were Kichitaro Suga and Hatsuyo Uyeno, who had come to Vancouver from Hiroshima; the family eventually numbered fourteen children.

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.