The New Canadian

Originally published in English. Moved from Vancouver to Kaslo in 1942 and continued publishing during the war years in English and Japanese. The BC Security Commission provided the paper with funding at this time so that it could advise Japanese Canadians of relevant notices, orders, etc.

Metadata

OrgName	The New Canadian
Desc	Japanese Canadian newspaper published 1938-2001. Intended to serve the Nisei.

Data

Names (2)

Takaichi Umezuki

Kasey Tanaka

Collections

Oral Histories (5)

Tom Shoyama, interviewed by Ann Sunahara, 01 January 1977

Ann Sunahara Dictating EAA Doucuments, interviewed by Ann Sunahara, 01 January 1976

Ann Sunahara Reading Letters Intercepted by the Censor, interviewed by Ann Sunahara, 03 September 1977

Hiroshi Fudge Fujino, interviewed by Tatsuo Kage, 01 January 1991

Tom Shoyama, interviewed by Ann Sunahara, 31 December 2022

Other Archival Files (72)

Nisei Optometrist Announces Opening

May

Loss of Language Papers Severe Blow but Kids Delight in School Closure

Social Assimilation a Reality

Council Circular

March

All Island Cars in but Locals Lagging

Go Back to What BC Japs Answer to Returning to Coast

August

General exhibits 1-63 and list.

File 6-5: Kanada ni okeru shosu minzoku no kenkyu - Study on Minority Groups in Canada

No Get Even Action in Canada Warns Prime Minister in House

Weekly Paper Says Japanese May Buy Land

Government Report Finds Japanese Canadians Loyal

NC 1940

February

NC 1942

Make Application Custodian to Take Control of Property of Evacuees

Prejudice and Personality

File 773-B-1-40 Part 5: Treatment of Japanese in Canada – Proposals of Various Persons

Policy Tightened as End of Evacuation Nears

February

Navy to Protect Fishing Boats

1000 Per Week Registered

November

For National Unity

A Letter to the Sun

Re-affirm Loyalty as War Flares over Pacific

Round the Registration Booths

The Strain of Language Schools

Rights of Citizenship

Japs Upset Over Plan To Sell Lands

Chemainus Co Assures Workers of Fair Treatment

F0 GR1222 BOX 104

Work Pushed to Prepare Fourth Ghost Town

NC 1941

Consul Donates Large Sum for JCCL Library

The Saga of an Embattled Street

We Shall Get Their Loyalty

A Bridge for Understanding

December

City West End Registration to Begin March 4

August

File 1-3 Correspondence 1942, 1946 - Aug, 1947

File 163: Minutes of Meetings - 1942-1943

The New Canadian

Special Japanese Registration Compulsory

The Sane Just Approach

Our Fishermen Face an Uncertain Future

File 3: Nogyokai no sendatsu ko Inoue Jiro shi – A Pioneer in the Agricultural World: The Late Inoue Jiro. “The New Canadian.” 9:26:53., 1953

Language Schools Seek Government Approval

Sweeping Steps to Restrict All Japanese on Coast

January

File 22: Clippings and correspondence

The Nisei and the New Order

April

Japanese Committee to Assist in Evacuation

Men OK in Rocky Road Camps

Minuro Takada Fonds

A Plea for Sincerity and Tolerance

Protection for Japanese Canadians

A Past Record of Loyalty the Japanese Canadians Will Uphold

File 14: Scrapbook, 1946-1947

MG31-F8 VOLUME 1

January

Cars Radios Cameras to be Turned in from Monday

Surveillance of “New Canadian” Articles

Encourage Loyal Japanese Canadians

Race Prejudice in the Okanagan

March

File 67-36: Vancouver Centre – Japanese in B.C., Censorship of Japanese Paper, April 1942 - Jun 1944

File 3: Correspondence, K.W. Wright, Part 3, 1951-1952

Terminology

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.