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M. Grace Tucker fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1942-1968.

Reference:

R6611-0-0-E, MG30-D200

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103195

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M. Grace Tucker fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1942-1968.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

10 cm of textual records.
11 photographs 10 b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of material relating to Tucker's welfare work with Japanese Canadians in the re-location camps in the Slocan, B.C. area. As such, it includes correspondence, petitions and notices from various Japanese-Canadians at the Slocan Relocation Centre as well as correspondence with the Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians. The minutes, agendas, financial records and news bulletins of the Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians are also included as well as reports from various areas in British Columbia submitted to the Anglican Japanese Mission. Fonds also contains articles and miscellaneous memoranda, forms and pamphlets documenting the Japanese evacuation and repatriation, 1942-1951, 1968.

The fonds also contains photographs depicting the activities of Japanese-Canadian families evacuated to Slocan City. B.C., 1942-1944.

Provenance:

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Tucker, M. Grace, 1902-
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Tucker, M. Grace, 1902-

Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians
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Tucker, M. Grace, 1902- : Grace Tucker was born in London, England, and came to Canada in 1905. She was educated in Peterborough, Ont. and after several years in secretarial work she entered the Anglican Women's Training College in Toronto.

Following her graduation from college, Tucker was assigned to Vancouver, B.C., for work among Japanese-Canadians. From 1942 to 1946 she was a welfare worker at Slocan Relocation Centre in the interior of British Columbia. In 1946 the Anglican Church assigned her to Toronto where she helped with the re-settlement of Japanese-Canadians in various parts of Ontario, until 1952. She later moved to Prince Albert, Sask., where she worked with the Anglican Church until her retirement in 1967.

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General note:

Received in 1975 from M. Grace Tucker of Vancouver, B.C.
Subject heading:

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Japanese Canadians

Canadiens d'origine japonaise
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1976-090 NPC

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MG30-D200
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Photographs: No restrictions. Copyright expired. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.

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