Japanese Canadian research collection. 1900-1970.

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Japanese Canadian research collection. 1900-1970.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606462284

The collection consists of approximately fifty small collections or fonds donated by individuals and organizations. It includes material (including photographs) from the following individuals or organizations: Yoshimitsu Akagawa, Rintaro Hayashi, Japanese Fishermen's Benevolent Association, Kishizo Kimura, Masajiro Miyazaki, Japanese Canadian Citizens' Association, Hideichi Nosaka, Yoshio Ono, Yukio Shimoda, Rinkichi Tagashira, Shingeichi Uchibori, Chiyo Umezuki, Tokikazu Tanaka, Yasutaro Yamaga, Tameo Kanabara, Richmond Berry Growers Association, Shogo Kobayashi, Skeena Fishermen's Association, Jisaburo Wakabayashi, J. Uno, Camp and Mill Workers Federal Labour Union, and Mitsuru Shimpo. The collection encompasses a wide range of topics including relocation to internment camps during World War II, farming, lumbering, religious activities, and personal reminiscences, as well as various organizational records. Individual collections have been arranged and described separately and filed in alphabetical order. Most of the manuscript material has been photocopied from original documents.

2.5 m of textual records.ca. 757 photographs.

jpn,

eng,

University of British Columbia Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7781921

University of British Columbia Library

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Uchibori, Shingeichi.

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Wakabayashi,Jisaburo.

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Yamaga, Yasutaro, 1886-1971.

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Born in Japan, Yasutaro Yamaga came to British Columbia in 1908. After working as a labourer, he purchased ten acres of land near Haney, B.C. Yamaga led the Japanese Farmer's Union in the Fraser Valley. After World War II, he moved to Ontario, where at Beamsville he established the first home for Japanese Canadian senior citizens (Nipponia Home) in Canada. From the description of Yamaga Yasutaro fonds. 1906-1969. (University of British Columbia Library). WorldCat record id: 606463449...

University of British Columbia. Library

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Malcolm Lowry was born in 1909 in Birkenhead, England. By the age of 30, when he had arrived in British Columbia, he had received a B.A. in English from Cambridge University, published a novel and travelled to the United States and Mexico. By this time he had begun work on his major novel Under the Volcano. In 1940 he married Margerie Bonner. For the next fifteen years he resided primarily in Dollarton, North Vancouver and travelled abroad before returning to England. His final home was in Susse...

Akagawa, Yoshimitsu.

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Japanese Fishermen's Benevolent Association.

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Skeena Fishermen's Association.

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Kobayashi, Shogo.

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Shimoda, Yukio.

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Umezuki, Chiyo.

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Tanaka, Tokikazu.

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Hayashi, Rintaro.

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Japanese Canadian Citizens Association

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Kimura, Kishizo.

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Miyazaki, Masajiro.

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Kanabara, Tameo.

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Nosaka, Hideichi.

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Richmond Berry Growers' Association.

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Camp and Mill Workers' Federal Labour Union.

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Ono, Yoshio.

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Shinpo, Mitsuru, 1931-

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Mitsuru Shimpo was born in Manchuria. He graduated from the International Christian University in Japan (1957) and then received his M.A. in Sociology from the Tokyo Educational College. After his graduation, Shimpo returned to I.C.U. as a lecturer (1959-1962). He then emigrated to British Columbia and completed an M.A. in Sociology in 1963. Shimpo then worked as a research sociologist at the Centre for Community Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. After returning to the University of Bri...

Tagashira, Rinkichi.

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