File consists of 6 black and white photographs of Japanese internment camps. Typewritten and handwritten annotations on the verso describe them as follows (includes BC Archives PLAB numbers):
I-32057: Japanese evacuees leaving Vancouver
I-32058: Clinic at Slocan
I-32059: Japanese internment campground construction
I-32060: Main street - Kaslo, B.C.
I-32061: B.C. Security Commission houses for Japanese (photographer mistook Doukhobor in wagon for Japanese).
I-32062: Area under construction in Slocan area

GR-0470 contains records pertaining to the operations of the Elementary Correspondence School Branch from 1919 to 1969. The records document virtually all aspects of the branch's work. In addition to copies of the directors' correspondence and reports, GR-0470 includes copies of semi-annual correspondence school magazines (containing profiles of pupils and instructors), brochures, applications and sample lesson plans. Also includes records of courses offered in government Relief Camps during the Depression, along with records of courses provided to Japanese pupils interned during the second World War, and pupils enrolled under Sections 13(g) and 20 of the Public Schools Act.

GR-0470 also includes individual student files for the years 1919-1930. This series consists of a complete sequence of files [Nos. 19-296] from 1919 to 1921, and a representative sample of files [Nos. 299-2655], selected because of their historic value and because they contained illuminating letters from parents and pupils. Note that Files 1-3 (1919) will be found in GR-0396. Files 4-18 have not survived.

Before these records were transferred to the archives in 1979, application forms and report cards were removed from the students' files and were microfilmed. Regrettably, the application forms - which contain key biographical data and valuable genealogical information and the report cards were not returned to the original files; in fact, original copies of the application forms and report cards, along with related correspondence, were destroyed after the records had been filmed. Microform copies of the application forms and report cards have, however, been preserved by the Correspondence and Distance Learning Branch, Ministry of Education.

The series contains personal correspondence; letters to editors; essays, articles and lectures; poems and songs, most of which reflect Harris' socialist viewpoint.

For ease of retrieval, since some essays duplicate letters to editors, only those items which are specifically addressed to an editor are considered letters to editors; these are filed in chronological order. Those items not specifically addressed to an editor are considered essays and are arranged alphabetically by title.

The series consists of four reels of amateur film footage taken between 1937 and 1944. They show scenes and people in Slocan City and vicinity, on the Clough Ranch, in the Slocan Valley and at Halcyon Hot Springs. They depict Clough and Cooper family activities and includes footage of a sports day at the Japanese internment camp of Bay Farm, just south of Slocan City.

Correspondence, reports etc. relating to the evacuation of Japanese in British Columbia 1938-1944.

The series consists of a photograph album created by G.W. Funamoto in 1942 to document his time in various Japanese internment camps along the Yellowhead Highway and the Slocan area.

The album contains 169 b&w photographs, including postcards and other commercially produced prints, and includes images of various Japanese internment camps such as Red Pass and Lemon Creek; images of a unidentified camps (possibly Princeton and Tashme) and images identified as Slocan City, Sandon, New Denver and Kamloops. There are also various commercially produced images of the Canadian Rockies, photographs of what may be family and friends and images of the BC Public Works activities involved in road building. There is very little in the way of captions and other identifying information although there are some inscriptions in English and Japanese. The album also contains two British Columbia Security Commission 5 cent coupons.

The file consists of publications, correspondence, clippings, photographs and biographical information of Amy Leigh collected and created by Amy Leigh between 1943 and 2001. The file includes a copy of a report written in 1943 by Leigh about Japanese welfare under the British Columbia Security Commission.

The series consists of correspondence sent to Sgt. J. Hooker of the Ashcroft detachment of the BC Provincial Police. The series also consists of copies of Sgt. Hooker’s outward correspondence. The correspondence dates from October and November 1943 and concerns the movements of individual Japanese Canadians across the province. The correspondence also includes travel permits for specific individuals detailing their registration number, their place of departure and arrival, the means by which they were to travel and the purpose of their trip. Correspondence was sent by both the RCMP and the British Columbia Security Commission. The series documents the travel of registered Japanese Canadians for both personal and work purposes.

The records are housed in their original folder, which is entitled 93A Japanese Permits. No custodial history or provenance is available for the records, and the folder was in a box that had been accessioned as “miscellaneous court records.”

Report (Henderson No. 326).

Purchased from Micro Media, Toronto.

The file is a typescript copy of "Condition Yellow", an unpublished novel concerning the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II, by Clive Greerson Cornish.

SUMMARY: Comments by unidentified speaker about World War II and Japanese Canadians.;

Report (Henderson, 340).

Purchased from Micro Media, Toronto.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Mildred Roylance begins this interview by singing "Home on the Range" and she tells the story of Colin Scott McRae, a young man from Ontario who wrote the song and came to Boundary in 1887 or 1888. He was a taxidermist and became partners with Mrs. Roylance's father and opened a ranch called "McLaren and McRae" in Deadwood. She outlines her father's life as a surveyor including his life in the South Pacific, San Francisco, and Vancouver Island, and finally to a ranch where she was born. Mrs. Roylance describes the location of Carson where her father lived for one year before coming to Deadwood. Her father and McRae were the first people to settle Greenwood, incorporated as a city in 1897. Mrs. Roylance talks about her father's relationship with the Indians and the "crazy" Volcanic Brown and recounts many stories about their celebrations and friendships together.

TRACK 2: Mrs. Roylance discusses a dance that Brown did at an Indian party. Mrs. Roylance's mother was the postmistress in Deadwood and she describes life in Deadwood before the mines closed and the town was deserted. The BC Security Commission moved the Japanese from the coast in 1942; 1,200 came into Greenwood and were accepted and assimilated into the town. Many names of pioneers are mentioned, including: Jack Lucie, Johnny Meyers, who was a butcher, Jim Pogie, an Italian from the Cantalito family who came to mine in 1850 in Rock Creek, and Bob Johnson, a teacher. Then she discusses the earliest days of Grand Forks, Deadwood and Greenwood. Dr. McLean, who lived in the area from 1912 to 1920, became the Premier of B.C. She then tells the story of Boundary Falls and the discovery of gold below Norwegian Creek.

CALL NUMBER: T0345:0001 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1965-05-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Alexander Harris describes prospecting and mining in the Arrow and Kootenay Lakes area in the 1890s. His father, Joseph Harris, came to Slocan in 1896, established a ranch or farm that supplied vegetables and fruit to the mining camps. Alexander Harris' account includes stories about mining camp life, Orientals, travel on Arrow Lakes, and individual miners: Carpenter, Seighton, Monty; Davis, Martin Fry and Johnny Harris.

TRACK 2: He tells about the naming of mining towns in the area: New Denver, Three Forks, etc. The high school for the area was located on his father's ranch. He describes local culture, social activities, sports, as well as mining techniques, locating ore and equipment.

CALL NUMBER: T0345:0002 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1965-05-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Rock drilling techniques and competitions are discussed. Mr. Harris continues his description of mining methods, ore extraction, transportation to the mills, such as aerial trams, use of horses, processing of ore at the mills, shipping and tailings. A Welsh choir on tour in Canada went bankrupt in the Slocan area and the men worked in the mines at Silverton and New Denver area to earn some money.

TRACK 2: This tape continues with discussions of the New Denver town site, buildings, water transportation, early roads, the Japanese evacuation, Slocan Lake, also known as Lucerne, the Valhalla Range, and New Denver's growth. Wildlife was depleted during the early years of these communities. Mr. Harris speaks about an early trip to the Kokanee Glacier, 1919; Theo Rankin, a local teacher; and his father and mother.

"Discrimination Patterns with Change in Population Size of Urban Centres: A Case Study of Indians in Southwestern British Columbia." "Tashme, British Columbia: An Existing Non-Entity.". M.A. Theses. Simon Fraser University, 1971.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Asamatsu Murakami RECORDED: Richmond (B.C.), 1972-03-09 & 15 SUMMARY: Asamatsu Murakami was born in 1885 in Japan. Came to Steveston in 1898 with his older brother. Went to school for half a year, then engaged in fishing all his life except during the war, when he and his family when to Alberta to work for a sugarbeet farm. His oldest son is a fisherman.

CALL NUMBER: T0062:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A. Takeo Arakawa : a Japanese-Canadian businessman PERIOD COVERED: 1922-1949 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-21 SUMMARY: A. Takeo Arakawa was appointed to work in the Vancouver branch of the Tamura Shokai in 1926. He was a landed immigrant. He worked in the bank and trade department of the same firm until 1933. He got married and started his own business, a grocery store. He worked in a fruit packaging plant in Winfield during the Second World War. He is now President of the Trans-Pacific Trading Company.

CALL NUMBER: T0062:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A. Takeo Arakawa describes his life during World War II PERIOD COVERED: 1941-1972 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-21 SUMMARY: A. Takeo Arakawa describes his first opportunity to vote as a Canadian citizen. He also discusses his life during World War II and the evacuation.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mildred Fahrni : memoirs of a social activist RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-26 SUMMARY: Mildred Fahrni discusses her life as a university student, grad student at Bryn Mawr, social worker in London at Kingsley Hall Settlement House (including work with Gandhi). Her return to Vancouver in throes of Depression, intending to work as a teacher but, upon learning the employment situation, worked with the YW-YMCA and then went to New Denver to teach Japanese children of internees. Also mentions briefly her work with the Fellowship of Reconciliation Peace Action Group and travel society.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jiro Kobayashi PERIOD COVERED: 1907-1972 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1972-04-25 SUMMARY: Jiro Kobayashi came to Canada at age 21 in 1907 to study about North American farming for two years. He was a graduate of the school of agriculture in Osaka. He traveled in the Pacific Northwest to look at farming. He came to Vancouver and started a potato farm on Lulu Island. After five difficult years he gave up farming and went to the Skeena River as a fisherman. Stayed for eight years. Worked as a sawmill worker. Then became a landlord. During the war he was in Tashme Camp. Moved to New Denver and was a house painter.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Howard and Gwen Norman : Canadian missionaries in Japan, 1932-1971 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-06-03 SUMMARY: Howard and Gwen Norman discuss Japanese-Canadians in World War II. Life in Japan before and after WWII. The history of the Canadian Methodist mission to Japan.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kuri Takenaka PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1972 RECORDED: New Denver (B.C.), 1972-04-26 SUMMARY: Kuri Takenaka was born in 1912 in Japan and married in 1930 at the age of 18. Came to Canada with her husband, Mr. Takenaka, a handyman who had lived in Canada since 1922. Mr. Takenaka's father was a fisherman. Kuri attended Mora School in Vancouver for a year to learn to be a hairdresser. They moved to Woodfibre where Kuri opened her own barbershop, and Mr. Takenaka worked in the sawmill as a handyman. Her barbershop was in business for 9 years before WWII started and they moved to Kaslo camp. After the war they moved to New Denver where Kuri has a barbershop.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hideo Kokubo RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-04-11 & 12 SUMMARY: Hideo Kokubo was born in 1912 in Canada the eldest son of a fisherman. He started fishing at age 12. Since he was the eldest he had to work to support the family. His parents went back to Japan with his eldest daughter before the war started. During the war he was put in an internment camp for five years while his family was in the interior. He went back to Japan, worked for US camp, and came back to Canada in 1957.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alfie Kamitakahara : Japanese in Steveston - community life and evacuation RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972?-08-15 SUMMARY: Alfie Kamitakahara discusses the Japanese and their community life in Steveston, and their evacuation during World War II. [Very little documentation is available for this tape.];

CALL NUMBER: T1147:0002 [and T2744:0001]
RECORDED: Sandon (B.C.), 1972
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: (1) ALEXANDER (SANDY) HARRIS of New Denver discusses the town of Sandon. His father came to Sandon in 1897 to mine silver/lead. Harris discusses the area's geology; Eli Carpenter, who pioneered mining in the area; and a dispute between Carpenter and his partner, Jack Seaton. He discusses the geography around Sandon; life there after the First World War; a murder; the town's organization; and why Sandon was abandoned in 1955, after a flood. There was no gold at Sandon, but there was a boom in mining silver and lead there. He discusses Gene Peterson, the only resident of Sandon as of 1972. Harris claims that organized ice hockey originated there in 1904.
TRACK 2: Mr. Harris discusses the Japanese people who lived in Sandon. During World War II, there was a heavy demand for the mine's resources. The government's role in moving the Japanese to the Slocan, and the character of the Japanese. After the war, the Japanese were moved east by the government. He discusses the effects of the 1955 flood. He discusses his life in the area; he eventually became the owner of the New Denver water works and power plant. The Sandon hydro plant was built in 1898 by Johnny Harris, a major contributor to the town's development. He describes the layout of Sandon, including its opera house and entertainments. (2) EUGENE (GENE) PETERSEN is interviewed. Peterson is one of the few people still living in Sandon. He discusses the other people who live there; the population of 5000 who lived there in the late 1800s; a fire which caused the town to be rebuilt; Sandon's founding in 1892, and the staking rush shortly thereafter. He discusses his father (who came from Norway to Sandon in 1923) and describes life in Sandon in the 1920s. He recalls the town being well organized, but with no highway connection; its dependence on the railway; the orderly conduct of its residents; and the local prostitutes, known for helping out miners who were broke. [Interview continued on next tape.]

CALL NUMBER: T1147:0001 [and T2744:0002]
RECORDED: Sandon (B.C.), 1972
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: EUGENE PETERSEN recalls the history of Sandon through various mining booms, up until its present condition as a ghost town. He discusses the 1929 murder of miner Sigvald Myklebost [Petersen says "1927"]; the killer was never convicted. An anecdote about how little law-breaking there was in Sandon. The “exodus” started during the depression in the 1930s. In the 1940s there were only 40 people. There was a slight increase in population in the 1950s, when 700 people lived in the town. The town emptied out again in the fall of 1953, when the population went down to 100. The flood of June 1955, in which half of the town was destroyed. The local power plant, built in 1896. He discusses what would be involved in the preservation of Sandon. He describes the silver-lead ore found at Sandon. Petersen still finds ore in the area, but it is not a big money maker. He plans on staying in Sandon until he works out his mining claim. (4) HAL WRIGHT, formerly of Saltspring Island, discusses his efforts to establish a museum at Sandon in the summer of 1972, working under an OFY grant. The museum displays local relics, along with photographs he acquired from the BC Archives. Wright is staying in Sandon through the winter. He plans on working for a carpenter and finishing school by correspondence. (5) EUGENE PETERSEN then discusses ghosts in the town. One of the remaining houses caught on fire, and he heard knocking on his door; no one was there, but there was a fire down the street.
[TRACK 2 is described separately; see AAAB1272.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Itono Hamamoto : a Japanese-Canadian school teacher PERIOD COVERED: 1927-1972 RECORDED: Steveston (B.C.), 1972 SUMMARY: Itono Hamamoto came to Canada when she was 33 years old with her daughter to join her parents, sister and husband. She was a school teacher in Japan and in Steveston for 15 years. The Hamamoto family went to Grand Forks to do farming during and after WWII for about 10 years. Mr. Hamamoto, a strawberry farmer and fisherman, died in 1969. Mrs. Hamamoto has a daughter and a son.