Books and correspondence related to Japanese Canadian history

This series has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.

Series consists of six books related to Japanese Canadian history, including a survey of Canada published in 1929, recollections by a Japanese Canadian Issei of his fellow Japanese Canadian fishermen, a social history of Japanese Canadians, and a history of the Japanese Language School of Vancouver and its founders.

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.

No digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.