nnm_f69_volume_s1744_file_f200

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File consists of pamphlets and books used by Ito during his service with the Canadian Intelligence Corps in the Pacific arena in the Second World War. The books include a dictionary of military terms, a compilation of kanji abbreviations, a guide of Japanese military tactics, a guide to the use of Japanese documents for intelligence purposes, and a guide to occupied Japan. File also contains a handbill produced by the Allies for distribution to Japanese forces.

Roy Ryoichi Ito was born in British Columbia. During the internment period he was relocated with his family initially to work on a sugar beet farm in Alberta, then to Kaslo, BC, where he worked on The New Canadian newspaper, then to Hamilton, Ontario, where he began studies at McMaster University in 1943. He was recruited to join the army, and served as a sergeant with the Canadian Intelligence Corps in India and South-East Asia. After the Second World War, Ito completed his university degree and became a teacher, and later was employed for twenty-five years as a school principal. He retired in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1984. Ito was married and had four children. He wrote several social science books for use in schools and two histories of Japanese Canadians entitled Stories of My People and We Went to War.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

This record was digitized selectively.