Collection search - Muriel Kitagawa fonds [textual record, graphic material]

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Muriel Kitagawa fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1919-1959.

Reference:

R5222-0-X-E, MG31-E26

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103713

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Muriel Kitagawa fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1919-1959.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

18.5 cm of textual records.
3 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of personal papers, articles and materials concerning the rights of Japanese Canadian Citizens, n.d., 1931, 1935-1959.

The fonds also contains photographs of a hockey team at the Asahi Athletic Club, Vancouver, [ca. 1919]; and the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Ellen Fairclough, with representatives of the immigration committees of the National Japanese Canadian Citizenship Association and the Chinese Canadian Association, Ottawa, 20 June 1958.

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Kitagawa, Muriel, 1912-1974

Biography/Administrative history:

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Kitagawa, Muriel, 1912-1974 : Muriel Kitagawa, née Fujiwara, was born in 1912 at Vancouver, B.C. She attended Connaught High School in New Westminster and the University of British Columbia for one year, after which she withdrew to work with her father, a dentist by profession. Evacuated from the "protected zone" of British Columbia, she relocated to Toronto, where she resided until her death in 1974. She was an active campaigner on behalf of Japanese Canadians' civil rights, working on many various committees of the Japanese Canadian Citizens' Association.

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General note:

Received in 1978 from Ed Kitagawa of Toronto, Ont.

Availability of other formats note:

A digital copy of three pages of her recollections is available in the series "Personal papers, articles, and materials concerning the the rights of Japanese Canadian citizens."
Subject heading:

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Authors, Canadian, 1931-1959 W. Fujiwara, 1938-1942

Japanese Canadians, 1931-1959 T.M. Fujiwara, 1942-1948

Japanese Canadians - Evacuation and relocation, 1931-1959 T.M. Kitagawa, 1947-1948

Japanese in Canada, 1931-1959 Margaret Inouye, 1947-1948

Japanese Canadian Citizens Association, 1946-1959
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1978-056 NPC
1978-121 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-E26
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG31 E 26] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [KITAGAWA, EIJI 1978-056] 3965

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions. Copyright on items less than 50 years old: National Archives of Canada. Copyright expired on items more than 50 years old. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.

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