| scope and content | File consists of one ledger size scrapbook of newspaper clippings from Vancouver area newspapers from 1941 - 1943; 1971; 1974; 1983 and 1984 relating to the suspension of civil liberties of Japanese Canadians, their forced removal from the British Columbia Coast, and the Nisei Mass Evacuation Group. The file includes original documents and copies of documents relating to the Mass Evacuation Group and the period of forced removal and Japanese internment in 1942. Of particular note are a Nisei Mass Evacuation Group document signed by Japanese Canadians working in road camps dated July 18, 1942, and a letter from the Spanish Consulate at Vancouver addressed to Jitaro Tanaka, representative of Japanese Canadians, dated Nov. 21, 1942. |