Description
Title Proper | Thomas Norris Fonds |
Date(s) | 1931-1975 |
General material designation |
This fonds contains 32 textual records.
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Scope and content |
This fonds comprises eleven series relating to the work of Thomas G. Norris. Material contained pertains to the following: Eikichi Kagetsu's claim against Mitsui & Co. Ltd.; K. Iwashita's sale of his property and business; correspondence between Norris and various political and legal figures, including Sydney J. Smith, Grote Stirling, J.T. Thorson, H.L. Keenleyside, and Leon Koerner; the adoption of Miyoko Kawakami by the Asanuma family; the forced sale of the Fairview Buddhist Temple; Eikichi Kagetsu's claim to the Japanese Property Claims Commission; the forcible liquidation of the Hompa Buddhist Temple and Kagetsu & Co. Ltd.; the Oriental Festival and Bazaar Society; the Canadian Japanese Association; fishing licenses in Japan; the "Sino-Japanese Conflict"; a lecture at Simon Fraser University on Japanese Canadians; the Japanese Canadian Citizens' League; Japanese exchange students at the University of British Columbia; and the Ocean Timber Co. holdings.
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Name of creator |
[Norris, Thomas Grantham](http://rbscarchives.library.ubc.ca/index.php/thomas-norris-fonds)
created this archive during his time as a lawyer and donated it to the Legal Archives of B.C. in 1989. The larger portion of this archive was transferred to RBSC in 1990.
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Immediate source of acquisition |
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
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Structure
Repository | [University of British Columbia Rare Books and Special Collections](doc:TINA_UBC-RBSC) |
Digital Objects (30)File 13-1 Kagetsu, 1936-1942Facsimile: File 13-1 Kagetsu, 1936-1942File 13-2 Kagetsu, 1936-1942Facsimile: File 13-2 Kagetsu, 1936-1942File 16-30 K. Iwashita re: Shoji, Tameda and Runacus, 1935-1936Facsimile: File 16-30 K. Iwashita re: Shoji, Tameda and Runacus, 1935-1936File 22-8 Politics, 1932Facsimile: File 22-8 Politics, 1932File 22-9 Politics, 1933Facsimile: File 22-9 Politics, 1933File 22-10 Politics, 1934Facsimile: File 22-10 Politics, 1934File 22-11 Politics, 1935Facsimile: File 22-11 Politics, 1935File 27-4 Hiroshi Asanuma re Adoption, 1934Facsimile: File 27-4 Hiroshi Asanuma re Adoption, 1934File 28-1: New Buddhist Temple, 1947-50Facsimile: File 28-1: New Buddhist Temple, 1947-50File 28-1a: New Buddhist Temple, 1948-51Facsimile: File 28-1a: New Buddhist Temple, 1948-51File 28-12 Kagetsu - Japanese Property, 1947-1948Facsimile: File 28-12 Kagetsu - Japanese Property, 1947-1948File 28-13: Kagetsu - Japanese Property (1949-1953)Facsimile: File 28-13: Kagetsu - Japanese Property (1949-1953)File 28-14: Kagetsu - Japanese Property, 1954Facsimile: File 28-14: Kagetsu - Japanese Property, 1954File 28-15: Kagetsu re: Japanese Claims - DocumentsFacsimile: File 28-15: Kagetsu re: Japanese Claims - DocumentsFile 28-16: Briefs Claim No. 1388 (Kagetsu, Deep Bay Logging Co., Kagetsu & Co. and Commissioner Bird's Report), 1950Facsimile: File 28-16: Briefs Claim No. 1388 (Kagetsu, Deep Bay Logging Co., Kagetsu & Co. and Commissioner Bird's Report), 1950File 28-17: Japanese Claims Commission re: Claims, Deep Bay Logging Co. and E. Kagetsu, 1947-1948Facsimile: File 28-17: Japanese Claims Commission re: Claims, Deep Bay Logging Co. and E. Kagetsu, 1947-1948File 28-18: Brief on Kagetsu Case, [1950]Facsimile: File 28-18: Brief on Kagetsu Case, [1950]File 28-19: Kagetsu - Miscellaneous Briefs (1950)Facsimile: File 28-19: Kagetsu - Miscellaneous Briefs (1950)File 28-20: Kagetsu - Miscellaneous (1937-1941)Facsimile: File 28-20: Kagetsu - Miscellaneous (1937-1941)File 29-3: Kagetsu & Co. Ltd. (1950-1951)Facsimile: File 29-3: Kagetsu & Co. Ltd. (1950-1951)File 31-17 Japanese General 1936-1972Facsimile: File 31-17 Japanese General 1936-1972File 31-18 Japanese Briefs re Franchise, 1936, 1972Facsimile: File 31-18 Japanese Briefs re Franchise, 1936, 1972File 31-19: Japanese - Students - General, 1960-69Facsimile: File 31-19: Japanese - Students - General, 1960-69File 35-20: Smith, Sydney, 1974Facsimile: File 35-20: Smith, Sydney, 1974File 35-22: Stirling, Grote, 1934-37Facsimile: File 35-22: Stirling, Grote, 1934-37File 35-24: Thorson, J.T., 1970-74Facsimile: File 35-24: Thorson, J.T., 1970-74File 39-12: Keenleyside, Hugh, 1969-75Facsimile: File 39-12: Keenleyside, Hugh, 1969-75File 39-14: Koerner, Leon, 1972Facsimile: File 39-14: Koerner, Leon, 1972File 45-3: K. Iwashita Re: GeneralFacsimile: File 45-3: K. Iwashita Re: GeneralFile 51-1: Kagetsu map [moved from File 13-1]Facsimile: File 51-1: Kagetsu map [moved from File 13-1]