Collection search - Japanese Canadian Citizens Association fonds [textual record, sound recording]

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Japanese Canadian Citizens Association fonds [textual record, sound recording]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1884-1975.

Reference:

R3135-0-0-E, MG28-V7

Type of material:

Textual material, Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

100580

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Japanese Canadian Citizens Association fonds
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Fonds includes:

18 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1884-1975.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

4.1 m of textual records.
4 audio reels (ca. 2 h, 30 min).

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of the records of the Japanese Canadian Citizens Association and it predecessors and documents the business operations as well as the activities of the Association especially in the field of evacuation claims. In addition to the Association's financial records and the records of its Executive Council, fonds also includes briefs submitted to the Federal Government of Canada and the Provincial Government of British Columbia concerning discrimination against Japanese Canadians. Fonds also includes case files of individuals who sought re-entry into Canada after the Second World War, literature on various conferences and correspondence with the Japanese American Citizens League and other similar organizations concerned with civil rights. Fonds includes an account of a pilgrimage of Issei veterans to the unveiling of the Vimy Memorial in 1936 and historical notes and clippings used by Ken Adachi in writing his book The Enemy that Never Was - A History of the Japanese Canadians; and consists of various published sources, n.d., 1884-1975.

The fonds also includes microfilmed copies of the first 17 containers of textual records, reels C-12818 to C-12836. This material includes correspondence, financial records, forms, minutes and printed material relating to the activities of the Japanese Canadian Citizens' Association, 1942-1953.

Fonds also includes sound recordings relating to Japanese-Canadian activities in Canada and the Japanese Canadian Citizens Association History Project, 1960-1964.

Provenance:

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Japanese Canadian Citizens Association

Additional name(s):

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Shinobu, Saburo, ca. 1936

Biography/Administrative history:

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Japanese Canadian Citizens Association : The Japanese Canadian Citizens Association (J.C.C.A.) was formed in 1947 to act as a national organization for Japanese Canadians. Its first major function was to assist claimants before the Royal Commission of Japanese Property losses (Bird Commission). The J.C.C.A. was also in the forefront of the successful post-war struggle against discriminatory legislation. Because of a change in the organization's structure in 1953 most of the records in this collection are from the early period of its activity.

The records in this collection are essential for the study of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War and its aftermath. The evacuation of Japanese Canadians from the "protected area" of British Columbia in 1942 led to the destruction of most archival material pre-dating 1941. Although much of the material in the collection relates to the issue of property losses which provided the impetus for a national organization in 1947, there are many other subjects covered by these files. The rebuilding of an ethno-cultural community, the struggle for basic civil rights and the activities of a national ethnic organization are all well documented.

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Textual records (Paper) The finding aid is a file list and a microfilm conversion list for microfilms C-12818 to C-12836 MSS1281 (90: Open)

Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid describes volumes 18 to 20 MSS1281 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000192.pdf

Sound recordings (Electronic) The finding aid is a PDF copy of a typewritten list. (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002942.pdf

(Electronic) All or some of the documents described have been digitized and are available at the following address: (90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_100580?usrlang=en

(Electronic) Les documents décrits ont été complètement ou en partie numérisés et sont disponibles à l'adresse suivante : (90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_100580?usrlang=fr

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General note:

The Association records were received in 1976.

Availability of other formats note:

Volumes 1 to 17 are also available on microfilm, reels C-12818 to C-12836.
Subject heading:

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Vimy Ridge, Battle of, France, 1917

Japanese Canadians - Canada, n.d., 1884-1975 Japanese Canadian Citizens League, 1936-1940

Japanese - Canada, n.d., 1884-1975 Vancouver (B.C.), 1936-1940

Japanese Canadians - British Columbia, [n.d., 1884-1975] Japanese Canadian Citizens Council, 1942

Japanese Canadians - Civil rights, [n.d., 1884-1975] British Columbia Japanese Canadian Citizens Association, 1946-1948

Japanese Canadians - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, [1922-1975] Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians, [1922-1932, 1942, 1947-1954]

Japanese Canadians - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 - Legal cases, 1922-1932, 1942, 1947-1954 Fishing Vessel Disposal Committee, [1922-1932, 1942-1954]

Japanese Canadians - Societies, etc., [n.d., 1884-1975] Japan, 1947-1958

Japanese - British Columbia, [n.d., 1884-1975] Japanese American Citizens League, 1947-1950, 1960

Civil rights - Canada, [n.d., 1884-1975] Mike Masaoka, 1947

Japanese Canadian Citizens Association - Finance, 1943-1953, 1963 Toronto (Ont.), 1947

Japanese Canadians - Claims, 1922-1932, [1942-1975] Canada. Parliament. Senate Committee on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, [1947-1951, 1969]

Civil rights movements - Canada, [1922-1975] G. Tanaka,1969

Right of property - Canada, 1922-1932, 1942, 1947-1954 British Columbia United Fishermen and Allied Workers Convention, 1969

Canada - Ethnic relations, [n.d., 1884-1975] "Call My People Home", [n.d., 1950-1953]

Japanese Canadians - Legal status, laws, etc., 1936, 1948-1953 "Minority Groups vs. Canadian Public - A Mock Trial", [n.d., 1950-1953]

Property - Canada, 1922-1932, 1942, 1947-1954 Pattie Tanner, [n.d., 1950-1953]

Repossession - Canada, [1922-1932, 1942, 1947-1954] Nipponia Home (Beamsvill, Ont.), [1947-1958]

Fish and game licences - Canada, 1922-1932, 1942-1950 Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (Vancouver, B.C.), [1947-1958]

Fishing vessels - British Columbia, [1922-1932, 1942, 1947-1954] Issei, 1936

British Columbia - Politics and government, 1948-1953 Vimy Memorial (France), 1936

Administrative agencies - Canada, 1948-1953 New Canadian, 1958

Canada - Emigration and immigration, 1947-1958 Nisei Affairs, [n.d., 1936, 1945-1949]

Japan - Emigration and immigration, 1947-1958 Quebec Directory, 1949

Japanese Americans - Civil rights, 1947-1950, 1960 Judge Helen G. McGill, 1936

Japanese Americans - Societies, etc., 1947-1950, 1960 "The Oriental Delinquent in the Vancouver Juvenile Court",1936

Government investigations - Canada, 1947-1951, 1969 Ken Adachi, n.d., 1884-1975

Human rights - Canada, 1947-1951, 1969 The Enemy that Never Was - A History of the Japanese Canadians, [n.d., 1884-1975]

Canada. Parliament. Senate - Committees, 1947-1951, 1969 National Japanese Canadian Citizens Association, [n.d., 1884-1975]

Minorities - Canada, n.d., 1884-1975] Canada. Department of the Secretary of State, [n.d., 1884-1975]

Japanese Canadians - Political activity, 1947-1975 Canadian Citizenship Council, [n.d., 1884-1975]

Dorothy Livesay - Poetry, [n.d., 1950-1953] Canadian Ethnic Studies Association, [n.d., 1884-1975]

Canadian drama (English), [n.d., 1950-1953]

Minorities - Legal status, laws, etc. - Canada, 1936, 1947-1953, 1969

Contests - Canada, 1958

Vancouver (B.C.) - Juvenile courts, 1936

Authors, Japanese Canadian, [n.d., 1884-1975]

Ken Adachi - Authorship, [n.d., 1884-1975]

Oral history, [n.d., 1884-1975]

Juvenile courts - British Columbia, 1936

World War II - Internment operations - Canada

World War, 1914-1918

Canada 1948-1957

Vimy, Bataille de, 1917
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1973-05-30)
1977-0144 MISA

Former archival reference no.:

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MG28-V7
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000338.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Finding aid box [FA 1281] 108

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

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