nnm_f253_volume_s1757_file_f154

This file contains a textual record.

File consists of one ledger size scrapbook of newspaper clippings from Vancouver area newspapers from 1941 - 1943; 1971; 1974; 1983 and 1984 relating to the suspension of civil liberties of Japanese Canadians, their forced removal from the British Columbia Coast, and the Nisei Mass Evacuation Group. The file includes original documents and copies of documents relating to the Mass Evacuation Group and the period of forced removal and Japanese internment in 1942. Of particular note are a Nisei Mass Evacuation Group document signed by Japanese Canadians working in road camps dated July 18, 1942, and a letter from the Spanish Consulate at Vancouver addressed to Jitaro Tanaka, representative of Japanese Canadians, dated Nov. 21, 1942.

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.