Voyage to Canada, 1962

Voyage to Canada, 1962

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Title Proper Voyage to Canada, 1962
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General material designation
This file has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.
Scope and content
This file contains documentation from Moichiro and Tsuma Tonomura’s voyage to Canada in 1962. Despite having lived in Canada prior to WWII, the couple and their family was deported to Japan in 1946. There they re-established their lives and began a successful yoghurt company. Their desire to return to Canada, however, led them back to the country fifteen years later. This file contains evidence of medical checks, transportation receipts, visa applications, and customs documents . There is English and Japanese language material.
Name of creator
The Tonomura family created these records.
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 not digitized.

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Voyage to Canada, 1962
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Readers of these historical materials will encounter derogatory references to Japanese Canadians and euphemisms used to obscure the intent and impacts of the internment and dispossession. While these are important realities of the history, the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective urges users to carefully consider their own terminological choices in writing and speaking about this topic today as we confront past injustice. See our statement on terminology, and related sources here.