Collection search - [Fred Aydon, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corporal R.A. Davidson and Ken Saito check registration numbers of Japanese Canadian deportees, June 1946]. Original Title: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (R.C.M.P.) constable checking documents of Japanese-Canadian evacuees [internees] ca.1942

Title is based upon the caption of the same photograph in The New Canadian, dated 22 June 1946 just days after the sailing of the USS General M.C. Meigs, the second deportation ship, on 16 June 1946. LAC accepts this title as more reliable than one created much later after the original photograph was published. [Source: The New Canadian, June 22, 1946, page 1, courtesy of Professor Jordan Stanger-Ross]

Please Note: The New Canadian was the English language newspaper which began publishing in Vancouver, B.C. in 1939, as the voice of the Nisei (Canadian-born Japanese). After the attack on Pearl Harbor, it resumed publishing in the Kaslo, B.C. Internment Camp. A Japanese-language section was added to better serve the Issei, or first-generation Japanese Canadians. In 1945, the paper moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and subsequently, in 1949, to Toronto, Ontario, where it continued publishing until 2001. (Originally updated: 2023-11-16)