ARC-1638 BOX 1

From this series, LOI has digitized 15 textual records or images.

This series comprises fifteen files containing various writings by Yasutaro Yamaga. Writings pertain to, or are titled, the following: Yamaga's personal history as a farmer in Maple Ridge, BC; Yamaga's personal history and birthplace in Japan; forms of marriage among Indigenous peoples in British Columbia; British Columbia's oldest Methodist church in Victoria; the rejection of Jewish people in America and Canada and the "Nazi killing of Jews"; cultural assets; the Lillooet-Burrard Inlet Cattle Trail and the Gold rush; the forced uprooting of Japanese Canadians from the coast; "Who Will Inherit the Earth"; "rejecting the immigration of migrant labour"; slavery and "Front Line memoirs"; "The Sacred Love of Florence Nightingale and Rev. John Smithurst"; "The Dutiful Japanese"; "A Brief History of the City of Hamilton"; "The Period of Camp Detention"; people of Japanese descent in Canada from the pioneer era to WWII; "From an Immigrant's Diary"; "Japanese in Canada"; and immigration policy and the Doukhobors. Material is primarily in Japanese.

Yamaga, Yasutaro created this archive as leader of the Japanese Farmer's Union in the Fraser Valley.

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