About

About this archive

The New Canadian was founded in Vancouver in 1938 as the voice of the Nisei — the second generation of Japanese Canadians. Begun as an English-language paper for a community coming of age, it soon carried both English and Japanese sections. When Japanese Canadians were uprooted and interned during the Second World War and the community's other newspapers were shut down, The New Canadian was the only Japanese Canadian paper permitted to continue publishing. Relocated to the interior of British Columbia, it became a vital thread of information and connection for a dispersed people. It continued to publish until 1992 — more than five decades of a community's record, written in its own words.

The collection

This archive brings together the surviving issues of The New Canadian from 1939 to 1992 — roughly 4,700 issues — scanned from microfilm and made fully searchable. You can search the complete text of every page, browse the run year by year, and read each issue as its original printed pages.

How it was made

The newspapers were rescanned from microfilm to archival standards and processed with optical character recognition so the text could be searched. This digital archive was created by The Heiwa Collective. [Funding or partners, if any.]

Using the archive

Search runs across the recognized text of every page. Because the source is aging microfilm, the optical character recognition is imperfect and some words may be misread — so the original page images remain the authoritative record, and can always be opened in the viewer. For names or terms that may have been misread, the "include near-matches" option broadens your search.

Rights and use

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Credits and contact

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