The following resources were created by other organizations and people with consultation from the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre.
The New Canadian is available on the Internet Archive Canada
Scans of The New Canadian newspaper collection (1939–1985) are now available for free online, thanks to the Multicultural Historical Society of Ontario. search “The New Canadian” (including the quotation marks) in the Internet Archive’s homepage at archive.org , or on the MHSO collections page archive.org/details/mhso .
Directory of Japanese Residing in Canada (1929) by Nakayama Jinshiro
Published by the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Heritage Committee
Landscapes of Injustice (LOI) database
The LOI digital archive collections are the culmination of a four-year intensive research period conducted by project members. It includes a diverse array of materials from archival and government records to oral histories as well as land titles records and transcribed directories.
This archive boasts 32,042 html documents collected from over 20 archives and repositories from Canada, the US and UK, including from the NNMCC.
Go to Landscapes of Injustice Research Database
From 1914-1941, the Vancouver Asahi were one of city’s most dominant amateur baseball teams, winning multiple league titles in Vancouver and along the Northwest Coast. In 1942, after Canada declared war on Japan, 22,000 Japanese Canadians were interned in the interior of BC, including the Asahi players.
Credits: Asahi player – Lou Ticzon | Narrator – Kaye Kaminishi | End Narration – Joy Kogawa | Director – Scooter Corkle | Director of Photography – Cole Graham | Produced by Point Blank Creative
Swimming Upstream powerfully documents the Japanese Canadians' case vs the BC government for its policies promoting ethnic cleansing, dispossession and community destruction - Maryka Omatsu
Japanese Canadian Historic Places Recognition Project - completed 2017
HOPE PRINCETON ROAD CAMPS
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/ gov/driving-and- transportation/driving/ japanese-internment-signs/ hope-princeton_road_camp.pdf GREENWOOD, CHRISTINA LAKE
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/ gov/driving-and- transportation/driving/ japanese-internment-signs/ greenwood_internment_camp.pdf
SLOCAN, POPOFF, LEMON CREEK
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/ gov/driving-and- transportation/driving/ japanese-internment-signs/ slocan_extension_japanese_ internment_camp.pdf
NEW DENVER
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/ gov/driving-and- transportation/driving/ japanese-internment-signs/new_ denver_internment_camp.pdf
REVELSTOKE SICAMOUS ROAD CAMPS
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/ gov/driving-and- transportation/driving/ japanese-internment-signs/ revelstoke-sicamous_road_camp. pdf
LILOOET AND SELF SUPPORTING SITES
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/ gov/driving-and- transportation/driving/ japanese-internment-signs/ east_lillooet_self-supporting_ internment_site.pdf
ONLINE MAP
https://heritagebc.ca/ cultural-maps/japanese- canadian-map/