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art One: A Capsule History Of The Japanese Canadians By Kazumi Miyata
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processr. of
formation,
the comBritish Columbia. Both actions, drew from the construction com
British
immigrants attempt
position of the population had as will be shown later, added panies.
Although
these
two
Lakehead, Ont.
ing
to
establish
a British society
[ been markedly colonial. By this to the hysteria that developed
areas of employment were a way receiving little, if any, support
(Pacific Citizen)
it was meant that they had been among the non-Oriental popula of life to the Japanese long be
from Ottawa, while being con
chiefly British stock, either by tion.
I _ Introduction
_
fore they arrived in Canada/they fronted by the “sensed-threat”
direct
migration
from
the
Brit
I The mu-pose of this study is
The entry of the Japanese im- still were regarded as a threat of the Japanese immigrants.
L reveal the hidden truths re- ish Isles or by percentage just migrants into the employment to the economic position of the
Perhaps, now, one can under
Leiner the prejudice and dis- recently removed from the Isles. scene offended the non-Orientals non-Orientals.
stand
why discrimination carried
Lination inflicted upom the
In 1931, a total of 189,595 peo at two levels.
Perhaps the greatest asset the on was at the high level as it
Lmle of Japanese ancestry from ple directly from the British . First of all, the Japanese ap Japanese immigrant had to com was against the Japanese im
E'time they arrived m Canada. Isles in a British Columbia popu plied their- skill and knowledge bat the injustices of this New migrants.
‘t0 the present. Undoubtedly, lation of 694,263 was reported. into the fishing and agricultural World was pride in achievement. IV— Discrimination:
s research on such injustices re- Naturally, this colonial com industries and proved to be stiff “Perhaps it was the result of
1SS4 to Pre-World War II
Lnds one that these experiences ponent was chiefly responsible competition.
the samurai spirit: false pride,
Undoubtedly,
the Japanese
fere, and still are, a. way of life over many years for the forma
Secondly, because the Japanese perhaps, but they strived to be
were
the
target
for
hostility and
(or other minorities as well.
had to live a life of thriftiness No. 1, not No. 2”.
tion of provincial policy.
prejudice
from
the
very begin
in the Old World, they were able
In review, the situation in ning possibly due to a combinaI In older to present a, more
Although British Columbia be to live comfortably on their be- British Columbia at the turn
of
less, chronological account of came a province of the Dominion
(Cont. on Page 2)
Incriminatory practices by the of Canada in 1871, it was still, low-average wages which they the century was as follows:
Canadian non-Oriental against at the end of the century, isolat luuiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiifiiii iiiiiiiiiiiijiiiifiiiiiiiiimiiii
L Japanese, it was necessary, ed geographically from the main
hist of all. to understand, not economic and political develop
Snly the composition and attitude ments of the eastern region. Due
jf the Canadian non-Oriental, but to this isolation, there developed
[iso to understand the Japanese a desire to make British Colum
ijnniisrrants. By doing so, lit was bia a British “society”.
possible to relate this factor
This attitude was even more
rith the
econo-sociopoliti-disintensified by the political institu
•rimination carried out against
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
tions of this province which im
the Japanese.
plemented “the ideas of remain
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1971
Toronto, Ont.
t Furthermore, it should
be ing British, of setting attitudes Vol. XXXV—No. 61
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jointed out that the term non- of acceptance and rejection with
Oriental is used rather than respect to non-British stocks, of
ifhite since the Canadian Indian ’ defining the British Columbia
ictively discriminated against I point of view in international
the Japanese as well. Secondly,. reiatiOns as they worked through
[he term Japanese used through- ■ Ottawa and the Foreign Office
jut the paper refers to both ciLondon”.
izen and non-citizen of Canada. | -With the provincial policy al: The next step was to relate ready established, _ it was just a |
Ihe Japanese internment during matter for the British settlers
TORONTO — A public hearing into alleged Lyn said.
SVorld War II as the end result to maintain the social organiza
if the continual buildup of dis- tion which they brought with racism in the budget and accoimts department at
Lyn was testifying at a hearing called by the
trimination prior to the war, and them, i.e., loyalty to the Crown, City Hall was told last week that the director of Ontario Human Rights Commission on a complaint
hot the Japanese attack of Pearl mastery of the English language,
accounting said: “All Japanese are sneaky of Shakil Ahmad, a former accountant in the depart
Harbor as history books suggest. economic competitiveness.
ment.
Therefore, these people were and treacherous.”
■ A detailed account then fol
Ahmad, of Pakistani origin, claimed he was fired
lows of the hardships and de not in the position to accept this
A City Hall accountant of Chinese origin, Archi from his supervisory job last November for racial
gradations encountered by the Ja- Oriental invasion and looked
lanese .from this uprooting pro- upon them as racially inferior, bald Lyn, said William MacMunn made this remark reasons, ’and charged that his dismissal “was
inassimilable people and as a about a senior accountant, Roy Sato, a Nisei, before an unjust act and it was racism.”
threat
to their achievement of MacMunn became director of the accounting division.
r The surrender of Japan on
The city said it fired Ahmad because of “incompe
desired
standards of living. In
September 2, 1945, meant re
tence.
”
“
He
(MacMunn)
said
Roy
(Sato)
is
dangerous,
”
lease and resettlement to tire fact, they were regarded as
Japanese. However, it did not ‘peaceful penetrators’.
NO PROMOTIONS
This latter feeling could pos
paean the end of hostilities. Addi
Lyn,
Ahmad,
Sato and the assist
tional restrictions were imposed sibly be attributed to the fact
ant director of the accounting di
[although they eventually disap that Japan was the first Oriental
TORONTO. — The National 11968. The National Committee ac- vision, Philomeno Larcina, testified
peared. Examples are given to nation to d'efeat a modern Europ
[reflect exactly what took place ean power, and that this expand Office Committee of the Buddhist cepted his resignation with much there had been ho promotions for
at this time.
ing empire was in direct com Churches of Canada announced the regret.
"ethnics” in the past five years,
From here, the study cites petition with the established em approval of Mrs. Miyo Nakamura
It is to be noted that prob but there had been normal pay
[further practices of discrimina- pire of Great Britain.
to succeed Roy Sato, C.A., as ably, Mrs. Nakamura is the first raises.
Ition still encountered by the Ja
Ill — Japanese Immigrants
trea'surer of the Buddhist Churches woman to serve on the national
Larcina, of Spanish-Portuguese
panese. It, then, concludes with,
of
Canada.
origin, said as a result of a depart
“The Japanese immigrant is
a critical analysis of the present
Roy Sato has served as treas executive level among the sister mental re-organization in July,
situation of the Japanese.
a citizen of two worlds: the one
which he shares with his fellow urer since the National Office was Buddhist institutions in North 1968, he was “surprised at being
M — Non-Orientals:
immigrants, and the one which transferred from Winnipeg in America.—T.B.C.
| named head of accounts.” He said
Composition and Attitudes
he and they have in common
the new position was a demotion
. The arrival of the Japanese with the remaining groups in the
but
“I just accepted it.”
immigrants to Canadian soil oc Canadian community. It is really,
He said four “ethnics” and Maccurred . at a time of economic indeed, neither Japanese nor
Parade magazine in its July 18 red Audrey Hepburn $100,000 to Munn competed for the accounting
expansion and development in : Canadian. It is a marginal world
tanada, particularly on the West or society between the two civil issue reports on Audrey Hepburn make four one-minute commer director’s job when it became va
year 1884 marked the izations, with customs and m- in Japan on television modeling cials for a wig company.
cant two years ago, but budget
Retired and 42, married to an
iirst wave of many to seek their stitutions peculiar to itself and wigs.
and; accounts commissioner John
ortune m this strange land. By an atmosphere all its own. The I Although she hasn’t made a Italian psychiatrist, Dr. Andrea
Yockey
told him he favored Mac01 the century, close to most appropriate name for this film in years — her last was Dotti, by whom she had a son 17
society
is
Japanese-Canadian,
for
Munn
for
the new post.
“Wait Until Dark,” released in months ago, Audrey lives the life
Japanese had settled along
while
its
roots
are
in
the
soil
of
of
a
wealthy
housewife
in
Rome.
1967
—
Audrey
Hepburn
is
still
The chairman of the hearing,
most western province,
Bntish Columbia.
Japan, its structure and content one of the most popular screen
When the offer to make com Horace Krever, a professor of law
mercials first arrived from To
h yas natural for the Japa- are increasingly altered by un stars in Japan.
ceasing adaptation to the en
kyo,
she turned it down—as she at the University of Western On
At
the
sight
of
her
long,
thin
Y®immigrants to choose Brit- vironment of the New World”.
neck, which they consider the has all film scripts offered her— tario, asked Larcina: “Have you
Columbia as their new home.
Here, then, was the typical most sexy part of her anatomy, but then she thought of the easy seen evidence that a racist policy
/ t'35’ not only the proximitv
money and relented.
has been carried out ?”
L
\°- British Columbia and situation almost every Japanese Japanese men grow ecstatic, and
Result:
Audrey
Hepburn
is
their
women
ennous.
Larcina replied, “No.”
X ld 5llmate that lured them immigrant found himself in when
being seen on Japan TV these
This
is
why
two
months
ago
a
he
came
to
Canada.
n
°Uv a^so the opportunity
‘STANDARD JOKES’
Tokyo advertising agency offe- days, doing wigs.
.F’F °n with familiar oc- _ The Japanese patriarchal fam
S?tae.EUCh “
and ily was a strong social unit. It
Brian Dunn, laywer for the ac
countants, asked Larcina: “Do you
maintained ties not only with
A-S?011’ ™any of them came one’s. present kinship relations,
recall saying to Sato, ‘If you were
came
■onbaJh, W?15 Province on a but also with one’s ancestors, the
white, you'could have that job?’ ”
ftp
1 basis with companies past. Therefore, to ensure pres
Larcina replied: “I could have,
ihna A^011 CoWery Compa ent ties with one’s children, for
They agreed at the conference I don’t remember.”
TOKYO. — Representatives of
rand the Canadian Pacific Rail- example, the Japanese immi six major groups of “nationalist’ that their first unified campaign
The hearing was postponed for
grants found it necessary to es students held a conference re will be against ratification of the
an indefinite period until legal
considers that there tablish Japanese schools where cently in Tokyo and agreed to nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
?on i’000 Japanes in their children
could
learn to carry out rightist unified front
Security sources said the move counsel for all parties can arrange
■W hr
but close to 5,- write and speak Japanese.
ment among the rightist students a meeting.
campaigns.
t k nh -e rurn-°f the century,
The parents realized the in
for a unified front first became
Under questioning from Ontario
i-ir rr^°US t^at they made fluence of Canadian schools was
The six groups that joined in evident last fall.
Human
Rights Commission lawyer
the
agreement
are:
Student
PufeIt in the Cana‘ creating a gap in communica
It did not materialize at that
ritv
Association
(Gakujundo);
John
Sopinka,
Lyn said MacMunn
structure. Conse- tion between them and their
time, however, because of their
National Student Institute (Zen- diverse campaign objectives.
anon? th! paiAn9ia ' developed children.
made “normal jokes” at coffee
koku Gakukyo); Japan Student
si Coring?011 -°nentaIs in BritFor instance, the sources added, breaks. “The standard jokes about
Likewise,
to
show
the
respect
-v-oiumbia.
and honor for their ancestors, Council (Nihon Gakusei Kaigi); the Association of Nipponism Negroes in the trees, and shipping
$
A *;he compositi it- was necessary for the Issei Allied Association of Japanese Students were campaigning for French Canadians off to New
on. it
non;Oriental popula- (first generation Japanese im Students (Nihon Gakusei Soren- the passage in the Diet of the
iij fear understandable whv migrants) to carry on their Bud go); Tokyo Association of Nip- Yasukuni Shrine bill, 'while the foundland. It is not really a joke,”
S°Ped- :D.urinS the dhist religion. For this to be poism Students; and the Kanda Japan Students Council had pick- he said.
■=gional 7ii-tle, mo5t important done, Buddhist temples were faction of Japan Students Asso-|
I
(Cont. on Page 8)
(Cont. on Page 8)
attitudes were in the built throughout the province of ciation (Nichigakudo).
. —
By KAZUMI
'IT TV 4 HP A
MIYATA
I rx'M/s/i
he f Kim Canadian
Racism Probe Told Toronto City Hall
Official Made Slurs Against Nisei
Lady Succeeds TBC C.A. Roy Sato
Audrey Hepburn In 4 Japan TV Ads
Nationalist Students Gather
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Xi__
i-s ... .
.
- _
_
processr. of
formation,
the comBritish Columbia. Both actions, drew from the construction com
British
immigrants attempt
position of the population had as will be shown later, added panies.
Although
these
two
Lakehead, Ont.
ing
to
establish
a British society
[ been markedly colonial. By this to the hysteria that developed
areas of employment were a way receiving little, if any, support
(Pacific Citizen)
it was meant that they had been among the non-Oriental popula of life to the Japanese long be
from Ottawa, while being con
chiefly British stock, either by tion.
I _ Introduction
_
fore they arrived in Canada/they fronted by the “sensed-threat”
direct
migration
from
the
Brit
I The mu-pose of this study is
The entry of the Japanese im- still were regarded as a threat of the Japanese immigrants.
L reveal the hidden truths re- ish Isles or by percentage just migrants into the employment to the economic position of the
Perhaps, now, one can under
Leiner the prejudice and dis- recently removed from the Isles. scene offended the non-Orientals non-Orientals.
stand
why discrimination carried
Lination inflicted upom the
In 1931, a total of 189,595 peo at two levels.
Perhaps the greatest asset the on was at the high level as it
Lmle of Japanese ancestry from ple directly from the British . First of all, the Japanese ap Japanese immigrant had to com was against the Japanese im
E'time they arrived m Canada. Isles in a British Columbia popu plied their- skill and knowledge bat the injustices of this New migrants.
‘t0 the present. Undoubtedly, lation of 694,263 was reported. into the fishing and agricultural World was pride in achievement. IV— Discrimination:
s research on such injustices re- Naturally, this colonial com industries and proved to be stiff “Perhaps it was the result of
1SS4 to Pre-World War II
Lnds one that these experiences ponent was chiefly responsible competition.
the samurai spirit: false pride,
Undoubtedly,
the Japanese
fere, and still are, a. way of life over many years for the forma
Secondly, because the Japanese perhaps, but they strived to be
were
the
target
for
hostility and
(or other minorities as well.
had to live a life of thriftiness No. 1, not No. 2”.
tion of provincial policy.
prejudice
from
the
very begin
in the Old World, they were able
In review, the situation in ning possibly due to a combinaI In older to present a, more
Although British Columbia be to live comfortably on their be- British Columbia at the turn
of
less, chronological account of came a province of the Dominion
(Cont. on Page 2)
Incriminatory practices by the of Canada in 1871, it was still, low-average wages which they the century was as follows:
Canadian non-Oriental against at the end of the century, isolat luuiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiifiiii iiiiiiiiiiiijiiiifiiiiiiiiimiiii
L Japanese, it was necessary, ed geographically from the main
hist of all. to understand, not economic and political develop
Snly the composition and attitude ments of the eastern region. Due
jf the Canadian non-Oriental, but to this isolation, there developed
[iso to understand the Japanese a desire to make British Colum
ijnniisrrants. By doing so, lit was bia a British “society”.
possible to relate this factor
This attitude was even more
rith the
econo-sociopoliti-disintensified by the political institu
•rimination carried out against
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
tions of this province which im
the Japanese.
plemented “the ideas of remain
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1971
Toronto, Ont.
t Furthermore, it should
be ing British, of setting attitudes Vol. XXXV—No. 61
ii
i
in
linn
i
in
in
miii
iiiiiniiiiiiif
i!
i
ii
iiiiiiiiiiiiii
min
ii
iinm
mi
in
tn
ii
iiiiiitiiiiiiiiiuiiii
u
iiiiiiiiiiiiiihhih
iiniiiiin
jointed out that the term non- of acceptance and rejection with
Oriental is used rather than respect to non-British stocks, of
ifhite since the Canadian Indian ’ defining the British Columbia
ictively discriminated against I point of view in international
the Japanese as well. Secondly,. reiatiOns as they worked through
[he term Japanese used through- ■ Ottawa and the Foreign Office
jut the paper refers to both ciLondon”.
izen and non-citizen of Canada. | -With the provincial policy al: The next step was to relate ready established, _ it was just a |
Ihe Japanese internment during matter for the British settlers
TORONTO — A public hearing into alleged Lyn said.
SVorld War II as the end result to maintain the social organiza
if the continual buildup of dis- tion which they brought with racism in the budget and accoimts department at
Lyn was testifying at a hearing called by the
trimination prior to the war, and them, i.e., loyalty to the Crown, City Hall was told last week that the director of Ontario Human Rights Commission on a complaint
hot the Japanese attack of Pearl mastery of the English language,
accounting said: “All Japanese are sneaky of Shakil Ahmad, a former accountant in the depart
Harbor as history books suggest. economic competitiveness.
ment.
Therefore, these people were and treacherous.”
■ A detailed account then fol
Ahmad, of Pakistani origin, claimed he was fired
lows of the hardships and de not in the position to accept this
A City Hall accountant of Chinese origin, Archi from his supervisory job last November for racial
gradations encountered by the Ja- Oriental invasion and looked
lanese .from this uprooting pro- upon them as racially inferior, bald Lyn, said William MacMunn made this remark reasons, ’and charged that his dismissal “was
inassimilable people and as a about a senior accountant, Roy Sato, a Nisei, before an unjust act and it was racism.”
threat
to their achievement of MacMunn became director of the accounting division.
r The surrender of Japan on
The city said it fired Ahmad because of “incompe
desired
standards of living. In
September 2, 1945, meant re
tence.
”
“
He
(MacMunn)
said
Roy
(Sato)
is
dangerous,
”
lease and resettlement to tire fact, they were regarded as
Japanese. However, it did not ‘peaceful penetrators’.
NO PROMOTIONS
This latter feeling could pos
paean the end of hostilities. Addi
Lyn,
Ahmad,
Sato and the assist
tional restrictions were imposed sibly be attributed to the fact
ant director of the accounting di
[although they eventually disap that Japan was the first Oriental
TORONTO. — The National 11968. The National Committee ac- vision, Philomeno Larcina, testified
peared. Examples are given to nation to d'efeat a modern Europ
[reflect exactly what took place ean power, and that this expand Office Committee of the Buddhist cepted his resignation with much there had been ho promotions for
at this time.
ing empire was in direct com Churches of Canada announced the regret.
"ethnics” in the past five years,
From here, the study cites petition with the established em approval of Mrs. Miyo Nakamura
It is to be noted that prob but there had been normal pay
[further practices of discrimina- pire of Great Britain.
to succeed Roy Sato, C.A., as ably, Mrs. Nakamura is the first raises.
Ition still encountered by the Ja
Ill — Japanese Immigrants
trea'surer of the Buddhist Churches woman to serve on the national
Larcina, of Spanish-Portuguese
panese. It, then, concludes with,
of
Canada.
origin, said as a result of a depart
“The Japanese immigrant is
a critical analysis of the present
Roy Sato has served as treas executive level among the sister mental re-organization in July,
situation of the Japanese.
a citizen of two worlds: the one
which he shares with his fellow urer since the National Office was Buddhist institutions in North 1968, he was “surprised at being
M — Non-Orientals:
immigrants, and the one which transferred from Winnipeg in America.—T.B.C.
| named head of accounts.” He said
Composition and Attitudes
he and they have in common
the new position was a demotion
. The arrival of the Japanese with the remaining groups in the
but
“I just accepted it.”
immigrants to Canadian soil oc Canadian community. It is really,
He said four “ethnics” and Maccurred . at a time of economic indeed, neither Japanese nor
Parade magazine in its July 18 red Audrey Hepburn $100,000 to Munn competed for the accounting
expansion and development in : Canadian. It is a marginal world
tanada, particularly on the West or society between the two civil issue reports on Audrey Hepburn make four one-minute commer director’s job when it became va
year 1884 marked the izations, with customs and m- in Japan on television modeling cials for a wig company.
cant two years ago, but budget
Retired and 42, married to an
iirst wave of many to seek their stitutions peculiar to itself and wigs.
and; accounts commissioner John
ortune m this strange land. By an atmosphere all its own. The I Although she hasn’t made a Italian psychiatrist, Dr. Andrea
Yockey
told him he favored Mac01 the century, close to most appropriate name for this film in years — her last was Dotti, by whom she had a son 17
society
is
Japanese-Canadian,
for
Munn
for
the new post.
“Wait Until Dark,” released in months ago, Audrey lives the life
Japanese had settled along
while
its
roots
are
in
the
soil
of
of
a
wealthy
housewife
in
Rome.
1967
—
Audrey
Hepburn
is
still
The chairman of the hearing,
most western province,
Bntish Columbia.
Japan, its structure and content one of the most popular screen
When the offer to make com Horace Krever, a professor of law
mercials first arrived from To
h yas natural for the Japa- are increasingly altered by un stars in Japan.
ceasing adaptation to the en
kyo,
she turned it down—as she at the University of Western On
At
the
sight
of
her
long,
thin
Y®immigrants to choose Brit- vironment of the New World”.
neck, which they consider the has all film scripts offered her— tario, asked Larcina: “Have you
Columbia as their new home.
Here, then, was the typical most sexy part of her anatomy, but then she thought of the easy seen evidence that a racist policy
/ t'35’ not only the proximitv
money and relented.
has been carried out ?”
L
\°- British Columbia and situation almost every Japanese Japanese men grow ecstatic, and
Result:
Audrey
Hepburn
is
their
women
ennous.
Larcina replied, “No.”
X ld 5llmate that lured them immigrant found himself in when
being seen on Japan TV these
This
is
why
two
months
ago
a
he
came
to
Canada.
n
°Uv a^so the opportunity
‘STANDARD JOKES’
Tokyo advertising agency offe- days, doing wigs.
.F’F °n with familiar oc- _ The Japanese patriarchal fam
S?tae.EUCh “
and ily was a strong social unit. It
Brian Dunn, laywer for the ac
countants, asked Larcina: “Do you
maintained ties not only with
A-S?011’ ™any of them came one’s. present kinship relations,
recall saying to Sato, ‘If you were
came
■onbaJh, W?15 Province on a but also with one’s ancestors, the
white, you'could have that job?’ ”
ftp
1 basis with companies past. Therefore, to ensure pres
Larcina replied: “I could have,
ihna A^011 CoWery Compa ent ties with one’s children, for
They agreed at the conference I don’t remember.”
TOKYO. — Representatives of
rand the Canadian Pacific Rail- example, the Japanese immi six major groups of “nationalist’ that their first unified campaign
The hearing was postponed for
grants found it necessary to es students held a conference re will be against ratification of the
an indefinite period until legal
considers that there tablish Japanese schools where cently in Tokyo and agreed to nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
?on i’000 Japanes in their children
could
learn to carry out rightist unified front
Security sources said the move counsel for all parties can arrange
■W hr
but close to 5,- write and speak Japanese.
ment among the rightist students a meeting.
campaigns.
t k nh -e rurn-°f the century,
The parents realized the in
for a unified front first became
Under questioning from Ontario
i-ir rr^°US t^at they made fluence of Canadian schools was
The six groups that joined in evident last fall.
Human
Rights Commission lawyer
the
agreement
are:
Student
PufeIt in the Cana‘ creating a gap in communica
It did not materialize at that
ritv
Association
(Gakujundo);
John
Sopinka,
Lyn said MacMunn
structure. Conse- tion between them and their
time, however, because of their
National Student Institute (Zen- diverse campaign objectives.
anon? th! paiAn9ia ' developed children.
made “normal jokes” at coffee
koku Gakukyo); Japan Student
si Coring?011 -°nentaIs in BritFor instance, the sources added, breaks. “The standard jokes about
Likewise,
to
show
the
respect
-v-oiumbia.
and honor for their ancestors, Council (Nihon Gakusei Kaigi); the Association of Nipponism Negroes in the trees, and shipping
$
A *;he compositi it- was necessary for the Issei Allied Association of Japanese Students were campaigning for French Canadians off to New
on. it
non;Oriental popula- (first generation Japanese im Students (Nihon Gakusei Soren- the passage in the Diet of the
iij fear understandable whv migrants) to carry on their Bud go); Tokyo Association of Nip- Yasukuni Shrine bill, 'while the foundland. It is not really a joke,”
S°Ped- :D.urinS the dhist religion. For this to be poism Students; and the Kanda Japan Students Council had pick- he said.
■=gional 7ii-tle, mo5t important done, Buddhist temples were faction of Japan Students Asso-|
I
(Cont. on Page 8)
(Cont. on Page 8)
attitudes were in the built throughout the province of ciation (Nichigakudo).
. —
By KAZUMI
'IT TV 4 HP A
MIYATA
I rx'M/s/i
he f Kim Canadian
Racism Probe Told Toronto City Hall
Official Made Slurs Against Nisei
Lady Succeeds TBC C.A. Roy Sato
Audrey Hepburn In 4 Japan TV Ads
Nationalist Students Gather
Page 2
Friday, August 13
W E W
PAGE 2
Cont. F. Page 1
History . . .
“In 1901, in the over 4,000 Ja Native Sons of B.C.
v
tion of physical visibility and ers was “creating a feeling so prohibiting Japanese immigrants panese in Canada, nearly all were five Sons of Canada
to
Hawaii
from
securing
pass
pronounced and bitter among a
economic competitiveness.
male; but, by the end of World existence. A>
As early as 1891, an attempt large class of non-Orientals, as ports to go to the mainland.
War I there were 10,500 males earlier, the Anti-^at^
Since it was no longer possible and 5,300 females, and of the was the first of Ux -'
was made to introduce an anti to endanger the peace and be a
Japanese measure in the British fruitful source of international to get into the United States by total number, 4,300 were children which played a prominent^?
way of Hawaii, immigrants then born in Canada. By 1931, these
Columbia
Legislature
by an irritation”.
the anti-Japanese
amendment to a motion to in
Furthermore, the Japanese ap in the islands turned to British figures changed to 13,000 males the province.
crease the Chinese Head Tax peared to control the boat-build Columbia as an alternative. Be and 9,200 females”.
From
the
earlv
dav<=
wn
•
from fifty to two hundred dollars ing industry and were very active cause boat-load after boat-load of
World War II, the^oX^
This rapid rise in the female
and extending <lt to the. Japanese. in lumbering, mining, railway Japanese were arriving contin
never without at lea^U
uously in British Columbia, the immigration and the establish ?fese
However, the federal government work and other operations.
zealous groups whff-7
ment
of
family
and
home
was
non-Orientals
panicked,
and_
anti
intervened .and prevented the
In 1902, Asians who were
itated
the Japanese.
*
passage of this motion for this British citizens in British Colum Japanese feelings were revived. of great concern to the non-Ori
There
were,
of
course
ental population since it indicat
could have strained relations be bia lost the right to vote in all
What they failed to realize ed that the Japanese were here which sympathized with'-b-r
tween Canada and Japan.
federal and provincial elections was that to the greater majority
panese. This included fiU±
Between 1896 and 1901, the Ja due to the actions of this pro of these Japanese, British Colum to stay.
and industrial leaders of
panese population in British Col vincial Legislature. This disen bia was just a stopover for then"
During World War I, no se vmce who were friendly to"‘i
umbia swellled to 5,000. New, the franchisement proved to be an journey to the United States.
rious objection to the Japanese Japanese mainly because" of ftX
province could feel the “squeeze” important restriction as far as
Consequently, “on August 12, was raised. Japan was an ally
interests in the 0?
the Japanese were concerned for 1907, organized labour, which of Great Britain and Japanese commercial
in the economic market.
ent, and a small group of
"T
Mr. Carter-Cotton,
Provincial this meant exclusion from a suffered most from the invasion, were enlisted in Canadian regi ors and clergymen.
whole series of activities in the arranged a meeting in the Labor ments.
Minister of Finance and Agri political
The
Japanese
entered
the
ecr.
and economic life of the Hall and formed an “Anti-Asiatic
culture, stated in February, 1899,
Moreover, with a labor short omic life of the province for th
province.
League”
with membership of age due to the high enlistment .most part as unskilled labors
“It is unquestionably in the in
The Japanese, once becoming over five hundred. A strong re and the increasing demand for
terests of the Empire that the
m the more important baud"
Pacific Province of the Dominion Canadian citizens, could not be solution against the Japanese supplies from Britain, employers dustnes. In the two deca<L
should be occupied by a large come candidates for any election; was passed and endorsed by the were only too willing to accept which followed the arrival th
and thoroughly British popula they could not vote in federal leaders of all political parties”.
all the Japanese who were avail first immigrants, they estafe'
tion, rather than by one in which or municipal elections. Also, ex
able. However, this feeling of ed themselves in consider^
Powell St. Riot
the voter’s list
the number of aliens largely pre clusion from
goodwill
was short-lived.
numbers in fishing, lumbering
Agitation continued during the
dominated and many of the dis made them ineligible for certain
mining
and railroading. Late,
Ater the War, when the sol
tinctive
features of a settled professions such as pharmacy and following weeks, and culminat
their
desire
for economic ajl
ed in a riot in both the Japanese diers returned business was slack,
British community were lacking”. law.
social
status
and
the discrimimand
Chinese
sections
of
Vancou
and jobs became increasingly
Even those veterans who serv
This was further evidence of
tion to which they were subb
ver
on
September
7.
scarce,
public
attention,
again,
be
what nationality of people were ed in the Canadian Expeditiona
ed to were instrumental in fog.
going to establish and maintain ry Force in France were not
Politicians soon took advantage came focused on the Japanese. ing them out of these industris
the future political policies of granted permission to vote pro of the tense situation in British Because of their economic suc into new fields, particularly th*
this young province.
vincially or federally in British Columbia by sympathizing with cess and their increased popula of agriculture.
Columbia
until 1931.
the anti-Japanese extremists. Two tion, the anti-Japanese feeling
1901 Study Commission
As Fishermen
weeks after the Powell St. riot was exceptionally bitter, and
Immigrants from Hawaii
Since they immigrated to fe
In 1901, a Royal Commission
“
Patriotism
and
Exclusion
be
of 1907, Conservative party lead
had been appointed to study the
After 1901, Japanese immigra er, Robert Borden declared in came the watchwords of the day”. ada, the Japanese have been as
sociated with fishing. It was na
effect of the Oriental immigra tion to Canada dropped consider Vancouver, “B.C. must remain a
Anti-Japanese Groups
tural for them since it was just
tion in British Columbia. Theii' ably; however, in the first ten white man’s country”.
It was shortly after this period a matter of applying their exfindings were that the economic months of 1907, over 8,000 came
rivalry that existed between the in. This influx was partly a re
As a result, in 1908, in British that organizations such as the
(Cont. On Page 7)
Japanese and non-Oriental work sult of an American regulation Columbia, one of the chief issues White Canada Association, the
of the federal general election
w.as Oriental immigration. Con
Thos. T. Onizuka, Q.C.
servative party candidates press
KAZUO
G.
OIYE
Q.C.
ed
for
the
anti-Oriental
votes
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR and
Fully Licenced
which resulted in a severe set
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR
NOTARY PUBLIC
NOTARY PUBLIC
back for the Liberal party.
2 Carlton St., Toronto
121 RICHMOND ST. ff.
Following the 1907 riot, two
TORONTO 1
Boom
1805
commissions were set up — one
363-5002 — 691-3388 (Res.)
366-6388
293-4281 (Res.)
Reservations: 366-2164
to determine the losses incurred
by the Orientals with due com
For best arrangements
pensation to follow,
and the
other
to
look
into
the
methods
by
Reserve ahead of time.
RES. 231-0863
BUS. 783-4261
which Japanese laborers had been
11
Ivy
Lea
Cres.
3101
Bathurst St.
induced
to
emigrate
to
Canada
OPEN SEVEN DAYS
in such large numbers. Both in
A WEEK.
2239 Bloor St. West
quiries were headed by Mr. Mac
Mon.—Fridays Noon to 12 p.m.
MRS. SATOKO SATO
INSURANCE
kenzie
King.
Saturdays 4 p.m. to 12 p.m.
(At Runnymede) Toronto
All types of insurance
Sundays
4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Opposite Tsukawa Barber
Gentlemen
’
s
Agreement
Office, 43 Eglinton Ave. East
460 Dundas St. W.
Phone 766-4292
A follow-up to the 1907 riot
Phone 485-5087
CROWN LIFE
and
the
two
commissions
was
the
Toronto
Borne phone: 449-9293
NAMIKI & TANOUYE
first of many restrictions on Ja
INSURANCE CO.
panese immigration. The Gentle
men’s Agreement of 1908 which
w.as mutually agreed upon by
the governments of Japan and
Welcome Japanese Canadian Friendi
Canada considerably cut down on
the number of Japanese immi
grants coming to Canada. The
NEW SUMMER
regulations of this Agreement
were as follows:
NIKKO GARDEN
J NT Auto Service
Gertrude Urabe
SMALL
SHOE
SIZES
STYLES
Ladies’ shoes from
1 up to 11
Men’s Scott McHales
4 ud to 14
Albert’s Shoe Store
1328 Queen St. West
Phone LE. 1-1931, Toronto
LEARN
CHICK SEXING
New class starting Sept. 7, 1971.
Applications accepted now.
Licenced by the Pa. State Board
of Private Trade Schools.
Write now for our free brochure
and more detailed information
AMERICAN
Chick Sexing School
214 Prospect Ave.. Lansdale.Pa.
19446
—
215. S55-5157
1
i
“Japan agreed to permit only
four classes of peonle to emi
grate to Canada: first, return
ing immigrants and their wives
and children: secondlv, emigrants
speciallv engaged by Japanese
residents in Canada for bona fide
personal or domestic service:
thirdly, laborers under specifically-worded contracts approved
by the Canadian Government:
and fourthly, immigrants brought
in under contract” by Japanese
resident agricultural holders in
Canada. A total annual quota of
400 persons was fixed for al I
but the first group. In 1924, the
Agreement was modified to -re
ducing the quota to 150 persons:
and in 192S. a further limitation
was introduced to include the
wives and children of Japanese
residents in Canada within the
quota limitation”.
I rtor to 190;, the Jauanese
immigrants coming to British
Columbia were mainly males who.
on the whole, were seasonal
workers honing to make a small
fortune and return to Japan, or
" ho moved on to the United
States. \ erv few came with the
intention of making Canada their
new permanent home.
V omen Immigrate
But following the first Gentle
men"? Agreement, the number o**
lemale arrivals exceeded that of
male immigrants in almost everv
year up to 1940: for example:
KWONGCHOW
CHOP SUET TATEBN
Special Attention on Take Out Orders
EM. 2-0029 For Reservations EM. 2-4322
126 Elizabeth Street at Dundas, Toronto
Catering to Wedding Banquete. Showers and
Seating Capacity 240
DAI-ICHI TRAVEL
CENTRE LTD.
672 No. 3 Road,
Richmond, B.C.
273-5696
San Francisco Ball
Game weekend — Aug. 13 to Aug. 15
$149.00
Fully escorted
Special Sister City Tour — Oct.
Escorted by Aiderman Jo Dean of North T ancouver
Hong Kong, Taipei and Japan S954.00/L1
Special group tour to Tokyo
Oct. 9 to Nov. 6 Air $530.00, Land S35, _
New Year special — Leave Dec. 30 f°r
YVinter Olympics and Hokkaido special e3Vancouver on Jan. 27, 1972.
CALL
Mrs. Michiko Kadota
Mrs. Jane Uchida P
W E W
PAGE 2
Cont. F. Page 1
History . . .
“In 1901, in the over 4,000 Ja Native Sons of B.C.
v
tion of physical visibility and ers was “creating a feeling so prohibiting Japanese immigrants panese in Canada, nearly all were five Sons of Canada
to
Hawaii
from
securing
pass
pronounced and bitter among a
economic competitiveness.
male; but, by the end of World existence. A>
As early as 1891, an attempt large class of non-Orientals, as ports to go to the mainland.
War I there were 10,500 males earlier, the Anti-^at^
Since it was no longer possible and 5,300 females, and of the was the first of Ux -'
was made to introduce an anti to endanger the peace and be a
Japanese measure in the British fruitful source of international to get into the United States by total number, 4,300 were children which played a prominent^?
way of Hawaii, immigrants then born in Canada. By 1931, these
Columbia
Legislature
by an irritation”.
the anti-Japanese
amendment to a motion to in
Furthermore, the Japanese ap in the islands turned to British figures changed to 13,000 males the province.
crease the Chinese Head Tax peared to control the boat-build Columbia as an alternative. Be and 9,200 females”.
From
the
earlv
dav<=
wn
•
from fifty to two hundred dollars ing industry and were very active cause boat-load after boat-load of
World War II, the^oX^
This rapid rise in the female
and extending <lt to the. Japanese. in lumbering, mining, railway Japanese were arriving contin
never without at lea^U
uously in British Columbia, the immigration and the establish ?fese
However, the federal government work and other operations.
zealous groups whff-7
ment
of
family
and
home
was
non-Orientals
panicked,
and_
anti
intervened .and prevented the
In 1902, Asians who were
itated
the Japanese.
*
passage of this motion for this British citizens in British Colum Japanese feelings were revived. of great concern to the non-Ori
There
were,
of
course
ental population since it indicat
could have strained relations be bia lost the right to vote in all
What they failed to realize ed that the Japanese were here which sympathized with'-b-r
tween Canada and Japan.
federal and provincial elections was that to the greater majority
panese. This included fiU±
Between 1896 and 1901, the Ja due to the actions of this pro of these Japanese, British Colum to stay.
and industrial leaders of
panese population in British Col vincial Legislature. This disen bia was just a stopover for then"
During World War I, no se vmce who were friendly to"‘i
umbia swellled to 5,000. New, the franchisement proved to be an journey to the United States.
rious objection to the Japanese Japanese mainly because" of ftX
province could feel the “squeeze” important restriction as far as
Consequently, “on August 12, was raised. Japan was an ally
interests in the 0?
the Japanese were concerned for 1907, organized labour, which of Great Britain and Japanese commercial
in the economic market.
ent, and a small group of
"T
Mr. Carter-Cotton,
Provincial this meant exclusion from a suffered most from the invasion, were enlisted in Canadian regi ors and clergymen.
whole series of activities in the arranged a meeting in the Labor ments.
Minister of Finance and Agri political
The
Japanese
entered
the
ecr.
and economic life of the Hall and formed an “Anti-Asiatic
culture, stated in February, 1899,
Moreover, with a labor short omic life of the province for th
province.
League”
with membership of age due to the high enlistment .most part as unskilled labors
“It is unquestionably in the in
The Japanese, once becoming over five hundred. A strong re and the increasing demand for
terests of the Empire that the
m the more important baud"
Pacific Province of the Dominion Canadian citizens, could not be solution against the Japanese supplies from Britain, employers dustnes. In the two deca<L
should be occupied by a large come candidates for any election; was passed and endorsed by the were only too willing to accept which followed the arrival th
and thoroughly British popula they could not vote in federal leaders of all political parties”.
all the Japanese who were avail first immigrants, they estafe'
tion, rather than by one in which or municipal elections. Also, ex
able. However, this feeling of ed themselves in consider^
Powell St. Riot
the voter’s list
the number of aliens largely pre clusion from
goodwill
was short-lived.
numbers in fishing, lumbering
Agitation continued during the
dominated and many of the dis made them ineligible for certain
mining
and railroading. Late,
Ater the War, when the sol
tinctive
features of a settled professions such as pharmacy and following weeks, and culminat
their
desire
for economic ajl
ed in a riot in both the Japanese diers returned business was slack,
British community were lacking”. law.
social
status
and
the discrimimand
Chinese
sections
of
Vancou
and jobs became increasingly
Even those veterans who serv
This was further evidence of
tion to which they were subb
ver
on
September
7.
scarce,
public
attention,
again,
be
what nationality of people were ed in the Canadian Expeditiona
ed to were instrumental in fog.
going to establish and maintain ry Force in France were not
Politicians soon took advantage came focused on the Japanese. ing them out of these industris
the future political policies of granted permission to vote pro of the tense situation in British Because of their economic suc into new fields, particularly th*
this young province.
vincially or federally in British Columbia by sympathizing with cess and their increased popula of agriculture.
Columbia
until 1931.
the anti-Japanese extremists. Two tion, the anti-Japanese feeling
1901 Study Commission
As Fishermen
weeks after the Powell St. riot was exceptionally bitter, and
Immigrants from Hawaii
Since they immigrated to fe
In 1901, a Royal Commission
“
Patriotism
and
Exclusion
be
of 1907, Conservative party lead
had been appointed to study the
After 1901, Japanese immigra er, Robert Borden declared in came the watchwords of the day”. ada, the Japanese have been as
sociated with fishing. It was na
effect of the Oriental immigra tion to Canada dropped consider Vancouver, “B.C. must remain a
Anti-Japanese Groups
tural for them since it was just
tion in British Columbia. Theii' ably; however, in the first ten white man’s country”.
It was shortly after this period a matter of applying their exfindings were that the economic months of 1907, over 8,000 came
rivalry that existed between the in. This influx was partly a re
As a result, in 1908, in British that organizations such as the
(Cont. On Page 7)
Japanese and non-Oriental work sult of an American regulation Columbia, one of the chief issues White Canada Association, the
of the federal general election
w.as Oriental immigration. Con
Thos. T. Onizuka, Q.C.
servative party candidates press
KAZUO
G.
OIYE
Q.C.
ed
for
the
anti-Oriental
votes
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR and
Fully Licenced
which resulted in a severe set
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR
NOTARY PUBLIC
NOTARY PUBLIC
back for the Liberal party.
2 Carlton St., Toronto
121 RICHMOND ST. ff.
Following the 1907 riot, two
TORONTO 1
Boom
1805
commissions were set up — one
363-5002 — 691-3388 (Res.)
366-6388
293-4281 (Res.)
Reservations: 366-2164
to determine the losses incurred
by the Orientals with due com
For best arrangements
pensation to follow,
and the
other
to
look
into
the
methods
by
Reserve ahead of time.
RES. 231-0863
BUS. 783-4261
which Japanese laborers had been
11
Ivy
Lea
Cres.
3101
Bathurst St.
induced
to
emigrate
to
Canada
OPEN SEVEN DAYS
in such large numbers. Both in
A WEEK.
2239 Bloor St. West
quiries were headed by Mr. Mac
Mon.—Fridays Noon to 12 p.m.
MRS. SATOKO SATO
INSURANCE
kenzie
King.
Saturdays 4 p.m. to 12 p.m.
(At Runnymede) Toronto
All types of insurance
Sundays
4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Opposite Tsukawa Barber
Gentlemen
’
s
Agreement
Office, 43 Eglinton Ave. East
460 Dundas St. W.
Phone 766-4292
A follow-up to the 1907 riot
Phone 485-5087
CROWN LIFE
and
the
two
commissions
was
the
Toronto
Borne phone: 449-9293
NAMIKI & TANOUYE
first of many restrictions on Ja
INSURANCE CO.
panese immigration. The Gentle
men’s Agreement of 1908 which
w.as mutually agreed upon by
the governments of Japan and
Welcome Japanese Canadian Friendi
Canada considerably cut down on
the number of Japanese immi
grants coming to Canada. The
NEW SUMMER
regulations of this Agreement
were as follows:
NIKKO GARDEN
J NT Auto Service
Gertrude Urabe
SMALL
SHOE
SIZES
STYLES
Ladies’ shoes from
1 up to 11
Men’s Scott McHales
4 ud to 14
Albert’s Shoe Store
1328 Queen St. West
Phone LE. 1-1931, Toronto
LEARN
CHICK SEXING
New class starting Sept. 7, 1971.
Applications accepted now.
Licenced by the Pa. State Board
of Private Trade Schools.
Write now for our free brochure
and more detailed information
AMERICAN
Chick Sexing School
214 Prospect Ave.. Lansdale.Pa.
19446
—
215. S55-5157
1
i
“Japan agreed to permit only
four classes of peonle to emi
grate to Canada: first, return
ing immigrants and their wives
and children: secondlv, emigrants
speciallv engaged by Japanese
residents in Canada for bona fide
personal or domestic service:
thirdly, laborers under specifically-worded contracts approved
by the Canadian Government:
and fourthly, immigrants brought
in under contract” by Japanese
resident agricultural holders in
Canada. A total annual quota of
400 persons was fixed for al I
but the first group. In 1924, the
Agreement was modified to -re
ducing the quota to 150 persons:
and in 192S. a further limitation
was introduced to include the
wives and children of Japanese
residents in Canada within the
quota limitation”.
I rtor to 190;, the Jauanese
immigrants coming to British
Columbia were mainly males who.
on the whole, were seasonal
workers honing to make a small
fortune and return to Japan, or
" ho moved on to the United
States. \ erv few came with the
intention of making Canada their
new permanent home.
V omen Immigrate
But following the first Gentle
men"? Agreement, the number o**
lemale arrivals exceeded that of
male immigrants in almost everv
year up to 1940: for example:
KWONGCHOW
CHOP SUET TATEBN
Special Attention on Take Out Orders
EM. 2-0029 For Reservations EM. 2-4322
126 Elizabeth Street at Dundas, Toronto
Catering to Wedding Banquete. Showers and
Seating Capacity 240
DAI-ICHI TRAVEL
CENTRE LTD.
672 No. 3 Road,
Richmond, B.C.
273-5696
San Francisco Ball
Game weekend — Aug. 13 to Aug. 15
$149.00
Fully escorted
Special Sister City Tour — Oct.
Escorted by Aiderman Jo Dean of North T ancouver
Hong Kong, Taipei and Japan S954.00/L1
Special group tour to Tokyo
Oct. 9 to Nov. 6 Air $530.00, Land S35, _
New Year special — Leave Dec. 30 f°r
YVinter Olympics and Hokkaido special e3Vancouver on Jan. 27, 1972.
CALL
Mrs. Michiko Kadota
Mrs. Jane Uchida P
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Friday.
August
1971
13,
THE NEW
CANADIAN
History . . .
PAGE 7
Cont. F. Page 2
i
from their homeland numbers only in the late nineties,
owned by- Japanese \ ing, were viewed with uncertain- । segregate and to act as a unit,
K
-o +b-’t of the Canadian but by 1900, they were in all
lumbia amounted to j ty which led to the development Again, group solidarity’ and conbranches of the industry in suf almost 10,000
E| ttt?sT Co---iat । of stereotypes organized chiefly certed action are reinforced in
ficient
proportions to challenge well over one
E p v-k estimated that by 18b9
■”.! around ideas of their low stand- | the case of the Japanese by' oldE
fishing village of Steveston the attention of non-Oriental la
engaged in
?d : ard of living, of their inassimila time familiarity with a feudal
i
Ancmulation’ of about 2,000 borers.
or oft fruit c
j bility, and of their involvement type of organicnation in their
j j3032iese/By 1902, they held over
From 1905 to 190S the total In fac they came to a ume tin j in “peaceful penetration”. Such native land”.
B •>(JOO Tishins' licenses which increased rapidly as a result of dominant position
g farm ! concepts became to the British
One final point assimilability
J spread front rhe Fraser River.to increased Japanese immigration. ers in berry growing.
j settlers a guideline for their dis- | is very difficult when a minority
l| ijjg northern boundary of British As in the fishing industry, pro
Despite their successes by the ■ criminatory actions as well as is segregated in public places as
K Columbia (possible beyond the tests were lodged and intensified mid-thirties, the Japanese still ; a means of justifying- them.
the Japanese were in local theat
If
River district).
until the outbreak of World found themselves to be aliens in j
It was well known that, con- res, and excluded from public
the land of their birth — citizens : cern about their standard of places such as Crystal Fool in
I Jn 1919, this figure had risen War I.
I ?c S.267. As was expected, comAfter the conclusion of the without the basic rights of citi ! living was in fact an expression Vancouver.
| nla’nts were made by both In- War, efforts were made to find zenship. Therefore, the leadership j of fear related to economic com“Peaceful Penetrat ors”
I Jians and Whites that they were employment for the returning among the Japanese communities I petition. Nonetheless, impressions
The term “peaceful penetrat
| being- driven out of the industry. soldiers, and, once .again, the Ja appeared to be changing hands j and beliefs about the standard ers” as applied to the Japanese
became the scapegoat for from the first generation” (Insei) • of living provided data for .argu- immigrants was taken in con
| “As a result, in 1920 and 1921, panese
the
lack
of jobs in the lumber to the second generation (Nisei). ; ing that Orientals should be ex- text as a fifth-column activity
| the Dominion Department of
industry.
) eluded from Canada for it was group.
I Fisheries directed the Vancouver
>
obvious that they’ were not inTo
remove'
this
Japanese
"pro
The non-Orientals rationalized
I fishery commissioners to limit
■ “v
uameu io cnauenge terested in becoming Canadians
C..............
“that Japanese fishing, lumber
I the number of licenses to the Ja- blem'’’ operators on provincial
this British “society” and its po in the fullest sense of the word
ing, and farming- were more than
I nanese. In 1922, the Department lands faced the threat of losing
litical, institutions — they wanted
just ways of making a living;
| reduced the salmon trolling li- their licenses if they employed the
Upon
first
of
Powell
right to vote, they wanted
I censes to the Japanese
by7 Japanese; in addition, Japanese to live free of all restrictions Street, the Japanese community they' were pursuits to attain
| 33 percent. In 1923, licenses is- operators were unable to retain placed against their people.
of Vancouver, one would be in strategic locations for eventual
their
licenses.
It
was
not
surpris
clined
to agree with the above military operations.”
t sued to the Japanese declined 11
This second generation move statement as so many' non-OriI percent, .and in 1924, there was ing that from 191S to 1923, the
Therefore, they’ felt quite justi
percentage of Japanese in the ment culminated in the Japanese entals did at the time. However, fied in demanding restrictive ac
! a further reduction”.
lumbering industry dropped from Canadian Citizens League which careful examination of the situa| By the late 1930's, less than 15 12.98 percent to 8.94 percent was organized in the pring of tion revealed some significant tion against the Japanese in such
occupations — a further expres
I percent of the original number during which time the non-Ori- 1936. In the same year, they sent j factor
for example, wage sion of fear related to economic
of Japanese had possession of ental percentage of the total in a delegation to Ottawa to appear!/•
discrimination
against the Japa- competition.
I fishing licenses.
creased from 58 percent to 70.84 before the Special Committee on i nese meant ani automatic lower
Elections ana Franchise Acts of ' standard of living; housing dis
V — World War II:
I
Lumbering and fishing have percent.
the House of Commons to request crimination meant poorly develop
I been closely allied in the economy
As Farmers
Evacuation and Resettlement
a revision of rhe legislation ed houses.
I of the Japanese in British ColumBy-the 1920’s, many Japanese, which prevented them from votBefore the attack on Pearl
J bia. Because fishing was a seaAssimilation Issue
Harbor, there had long been a
sonal occupation, many entered victims of persecution in both
The question of the inassimila- fear of invasion of the West
In 1938, the Nisei initiated a
| the lumber industry during the the lumbering and fishing in
dustries,
had
accumulated
enough
bility
of the Japanese had been Coast, and there had been, also,
movement for better homes in
off-season.
capital for investment in some Vancouver to discredit the claims used in arguments to support a long established desire to ex
| The Japanese moved into the Kind of productive resources be
cessation of immigration and to pel the Japanese from the prov
f lumber industry in significant cause they' sought better all- of the Japanese low standard of support deportation, and had ince forever. Pearl Harbor creat
living. Altthough the Japanese
round conditions.
Canadian Citizens League work been tied in with the poor stand- ed the immediate possibility' of
Agriculture still remained the ed very' hard to unite their people | ard of living of the Japanese as the .first, and gave an opportuni
Il ta a good policy to
important occupational
endea as a whole, time ran out for them j positive evidence of inassimila- ty' for the second.
turr. th* HIGHT POLICY
i bility.
What followed December 7,
vour, and the Japanese took up on December 7, 1941.
Consult
uncleared land, especially in the
A state of social instability- I To justify' their stand, the non- 1941, was the complete disrup
Fraser Valley' and Okanagan existed in British Columbia as | Orientals pointed to the perpetua tion of the Japanese from their
William Wales Ltd.
Valley, and built them up into the 19th Century' drew to a close. tion of the Japanese language normal tenor of living: a pro
Insurance Agents
highly' productive
and
fertile Attempts to evolve a British “so school and the Buddhist, temples, gram of complete evacuation, re
2 Carlton St. 10th floor
farms.
ciety”’ were hampered by isola and the clustering of these people, settlement, and an attempt at
Toronto 2-A, Ont.
“In 1927, for example, it was tion from Ottawa and the rest i.e. Powell Street. Reasons for deportation.
Rhone 368-4681
estimated that, the total agricul- of Canada, by' the rapid Ameri the establishment of language
(Cont. on Page 8)
canization from the south, and schools and Buddhist temples
by' the emergence of an aggres were previously' given.
sive new power, Japan, from the
RAMEN
This clustering was certainly'
FOR YOUR HOLIDAY
Far East. Therefore, it was na not peculiar to the Japanese, but,
or
tural for this British stock to be was typical of almost every' im
JAPAN ESCORTED AUTUMN TOUR
.
UDON
come sensitized to their social migrant settlement
in
every
DEPARTING OCT 23
ONCE A DAY|
values and intensively defensive Canadian province.
NASSAU
8 DAYS US $194.00
of them.
445-1338 ■
MEXICO
8 DAYS US $275.00
“Where color is added to cul
Toronto
Sociological Review
ture as a distinguishing charac
HAWAII
14 DAYS US $399.00
The Japanese, from the beginn- teristic of the newcomer, it pro
BAHAMAS
8 DAYS US $149.00
vides a further incentive for
GUNKAN TOUR TO MONTREAL AUG. 27
the members of the group to
ADULT
$78.00
CHILD
$44.00
CALL
FURUYA
363-0655
TORIC
OPTICAL
JAPANESE
RESTAURANT
OPTOMETRISTS
"MICHI"
Complete Care
DUNDAS UNION STORE!
328 Queen St. West,
Toronto 133, Ont.
Phone 863-9519
For Your Eyes
YOUR SHOPPING LIST
SAKURA RICE — EGGS — MARUKIN SHOYU
SUKIYAKI MEAT — VINEGAR — MANJU — SUGAR
MANY VARIETIES OF ARARE
173 DUNDAS STREET WEST, TORONTO
EM. 4-7692
118 West Hastings St.
VANCOUVER, B.C.
—~
--
proprietor
Travel Arrangements
ION ONODERA
489-4654
—
(Business)
tour
Anywhere — Anytime
16-day group tour of Orient $999.00
Tokyo - Atami - Kyoto - Taipei - Hongkong
* InT^J5 $aturday Departures from Vancouver
V ,c /r > Twin sharing hotel accommodation, sightseeing,
* s
Airfare, Service Charge and Gratuities
• mgle Room and open return at additional charge.
Phone or Write for Color Brochure and Further
Baqgasre
Phone Store 463-3426
Home 469-0293
Japanese Food
Deliver Evenings
and Saturdays
ADIDAS
TBNNIS
AND
FISHING
1201 Bloor Street West
LE. 2-4267
Insurance
ALL-WAY ROOFING LTD.
BRINGING SOMEONE OVER?
PassCTQa cnTanced by Stecnner or All
MEMBER OF C.R.C.A.
Cal! for Reservations or
FIAT ROOFS
BA VESTROUGHING
Information — EM. 8-9934
Information.
481-8805
(Residence)
540 Eglinton Ave. W.,
Toronto
Tours—Hotel—Sightseeing
TrcrreUers Cheque*
Obtainable
Travel, Accident
and
733 Danforth Ave.,
Toronto
OSCAR'S
SPORT SHOP
Air—j%hl ]^—B U^—Btrfl
kampai
PARAMOUNT
Gift Shop
SHINGLING
SHEET METAL WORK
ALCAN SIDING DEALER
K. Iwata Travel Service
Toronto
Vancouver
Ph: 368-9934
889 Dundas St. W.
Toronto, Ont.
254-5101
1115 East Hastings St.
Vancouver 6, B.C.
I. KAMEOKA
K. Iwata Travel Service
i
i
i
889 Dundas St. W., Toronto 140 ! |
j_
________________ 2J I
TORONTO
421-3374 NISEI OWNED
Tosh Nishijima
“Covering Ontario”
Night Calls: PL. 9-5095 HI. 7-1100
August
1971
13,
THE NEW
CANADIAN
History . . .
PAGE 7
Cont. F. Page 2
i
from their homeland numbers only in the late nineties,
owned by- Japanese \ ing, were viewed with uncertain- । segregate and to act as a unit,
K
-o +b-’t of the Canadian but by 1900, they were in all
lumbia amounted to j ty which led to the development Again, group solidarity’ and conbranches of the industry in suf almost 10,000
E| ttt?sT Co---iat । of stereotypes organized chiefly certed action are reinforced in
ficient
proportions to challenge well over one
E p v-k estimated that by 18b9
■”.! around ideas of their low stand- | the case of the Japanese by' oldE
fishing village of Steveston the attention of non-Oriental la
engaged in
?d : ard of living, of their inassimila time familiarity with a feudal
i
Ancmulation’ of about 2,000 borers.
or oft fruit c
j bility, and of their involvement type of organicnation in their
j j3032iese/By 1902, they held over
From 1905 to 190S the total In fac they came to a ume tin j in “peaceful penetration”. Such native land”.
B •>(JOO Tishins' licenses which increased rapidly as a result of dominant position
g farm ! concepts became to the British
One final point assimilability
J spread front rhe Fraser River.to increased Japanese immigration. ers in berry growing.
j settlers a guideline for their dis- | is very difficult when a minority
l| ijjg northern boundary of British As in the fishing industry, pro
Despite their successes by the ■ criminatory actions as well as is segregated in public places as
K Columbia (possible beyond the tests were lodged and intensified mid-thirties, the Japanese still ; a means of justifying- them.
the Japanese were in local theat
If
River district).
until the outbreak of World found themselves to be aliens in j
It was well known that, con- res, and excluded from public
the land of their birth — citizens : cern about their standard of places such as Crystal Fool in
I Jn 1919, this figure had risen War I.
I ?c S.267. As was expected, comAfter the conclusion of the without the basic rights of citi ! living was in fact an expression Vancouver.
| nla’nts were made by both In- War, efforts were made to find zenship. Therefore, the leadership j of fear related to economic com“Peaceful Penetrat ors”
I Jians and Whites that they were employment for the returning among the Japanese communities I petition. Nonetheless, impressions
The term “peaceful penetrat
| being- driven out of the industry. soldiers, and, once .again, the Ja appeared to be changing hands j and beliefs about the standard ers” as applied to the Japanese
became the scapegoat for from the first generation” (Insei) • of living provided data for .argu- immigrants was taken in con
| “As a result, in 1920 and 1921, panese
the
lack
of jobs in the lumber to the second generation (Nisei). ; ing that Orientals should be ex- text as a fifth-column activity
| the Dominion Department of
industry.
) eluded from Canada for it was group.
I Fisheries directed the Vancouver
>
obvious that they’ were not inTo
remove'
this
Japanese
"pro
The non-Orientals rationalized
I fishery commissioners to limit
■ “v
uameu io cnauenge terested in becoming Canadians
C..............
“that Japanese fishing, lumber
I the number of licenses to the Ja- blem'’’ operators on provincial
this British “society” and its po in the fullest sense of the word
ing, and farming- were more than
I nanese. In 1922, the Department lands faced the threat of losing
litical, institutions — they wanted
just ways of making a living;
| reduced the salmon trolling li- their licenses if they employed the
Upon
first
of
Powell
right to vote, they wanted
I censes to the Japanese
by7 Japanese; in addition, Japanese to live free of all restrictions Street, the Japanese community they' were pursuits to attain
| 33 percent. In 1923, licenses is- operators were unable to retain placed against their people.
of Vancouver, one would be in strategic locations for eventual
their
licenses.
It
was
not
surpris
clined
to agree with the above military operations.”
t sued to the Japanese declined 11
This second generation move statement as so many' non-OriI percent, .and in 1924, there was ing that from 191S to 1923, the
Therefore, they’ felt quite justi
percentage of Japanese in the ment culminated in the Japanese entals did at the time. However, fied in demanding restrictive ac
! a further reduction”.
lumbering industry dropped from Canadian Citizens League which careful examination of the situa| By the late 1930's, less than 15 12.98 percent to 8.94 percent was organized in the pring of tion revealed some significant tion against the Japanese in such
occupations — a further expres
I percent of the original number during which time the non-Ori- 1936. In the same year, they sent j factor
for example, wage sion of fear related to economic
of Japanese had possession of ental percentage of the total in a delegation to Ottawa to appear!/•
discrimination
against the Japa- competition.
I fishing licenses.
creased from 58 percent to 70.84 before the Special Committee on i nese meant ani automatic lower
Elections ana Franchise Acts of ' standard of living; housing dis
V — World War II:
I
Lumbering and fishing have percent.
the House of Commons to request crimination meant poorly develop
I been closely allied in the economy
As Farmers
Evacuation and Resettlement
a revision of rhe legislation ed houses.
I of the Japanese in British ColumBy-the 1920’s, many Japanese, which prevented them from votBefore the attack on Pearl
J bia. Because fishing was a seaAssimilation Issue
Harbor, there had long been a
sonal occupation, many entered victims of persecution in both
The question of the inassimila- fear of invasion of the West
In 1938, the Nisei initiated a
| the lumber industry during the the lumbering and fishing in
dustries,
had
accumulated
enough
bility
of the Japanese had been Coast, and there had been, also,
movement for better homes in
off-season.
capital for investment in some Vancouver to discredit the claims used in arguments to support a long established desire to ex
| The Japanese moved into the Kind of productive resources be
cessation of immigration and to pel the Japanese from the prov
f lumber industry in significant cause they' sought better all- of the Japanese low standard of support deportation, and had ince forever. Pearl Harbor creat
living. Altthough the Japanese
round conditions.
Canadian Citizens League work been tied in with the poor stand- ed the immediate possibility' of
Agriculture still remained the ed very' hard to unite their people | ard of living of the Japanese as the .first, and gave an opportuni
Il ta a good policy to
important occupational
endea as a whole, time ran out for them j positive evidence of inassimila- ty' for the second.
turr. th* HIGHT POLICY
i bility.
What followed December 7,
vour, and the Japanese took up on December 7, 1941.
Consult
uncleared land, especially in the
A state of social instability- I To justify' their stand, the non- 1941, was the complete disrup
Fraser Valley' and Okanagan existed in British Columbia as | Orientals pointed to the perpetua tion of the Japanese from their
William Wales Ltd.
Valley, and built them up into the 19th Century' drew to a close. tion of the Japanese language normal tenor of living: a pro
Insurance Agents
highly' productive
and
fertile Attempts to evolve a British “so school and the Buddhist, temples, gram of complete evacuation, re
2 Carlton St. 10th floor
farms.
ciety”’ were hampered by isola and the clustering of these people, settlement, and an attempt at
Toronto 2-A, Ont.
“In 1927, for example, it was tion from Ottawa and the rest i.e. Powell Street. Reasons for deportation.
Rhone 368-4681
estimated that, the total agricul- of Canada, by' the rapid Ameri the establishment of language
(Cont. on Page 8)
canization from the south, and schools and Buddhist temples
by' the emergence of an aggres were previously' given.
sive new power, Japan, from the
RAMEN
This clustering was certainly'
FOR YOUR HOLIDAY
Far East. Therefore, it was na not peculiar to the Japanese, but,
or
tural for this British stock to be was typical of almost every' im
JAPAN ESCORTED AUTUMN TOUR
.
UDON
come sensitized to their social migrant settlement
in
every
DEPARTING OCT 23
ONCE A DAY|
values and intensively defensive Canadian province.
NASSAU
8 DAYS US $194.00
of them.
445-1338 ■
MEXICO
8 DAYS US $275.00
“Where color is added to cul
Toronto
Sociological Review
ture as a distinguishing charac
HAWAII
14 DAYS US $399.00
The Japanese, from the beginn- teristic of the newcomer, it pro
BAHAMAS
8 DAYS US $149.00
vides a further incentive for
GUNKAN TOUR TO MONTREAL AUG. 27
the members of the group to
ADULT
$78.00
CHILD
$44.00
CALL
FURUYA
363-0655
TORIC
OPTICAL
JAPANESE
RESTAURANT
OPTOMETRISTS
"MICHI"
Complete Care
DUNDAS UNION STORE!
328 Queen St. West,
Toronto 133, Ont.
Phone 863-9519
For Your Eyes
YOUR SHOPPING LIST
SAKURA RICE — EGGS — MARUKIN SHOYU
SUKIYAKI MEAT — VINEGAR — MANJU — SUGAR
MANY VARIETIES OF ARARE
173 DUNDAS STREET WEST, TORONTO
EM. 4-7692
118 West Hastings St.
VANCOUVER, B.C.
—~
--
proprietor
Travel Arrangements
ION ONODERA
489-4654
—
(Business)
tour
Anywhere — Anytime
16-day group tour of Orient $999.00
Tokyo - Atami - Kyoto - Taipei - Hongkong
* InT^J5 $aturday Departures from Vancouver
V ,c /r > Twin sharing hotel accommodation, sightseeing,
* s
Airfare, Service Charge and Gratuities
• mgle Room and open return at additional charge.
Phone or Write for Color Brochure and Further
Baqgasre
Phone Store 463-3426
Home 469-0293
Japanese Food
Deliver Evenings
and Saturdays
ADIDAS
TBNNIS
AND
FISHING
1201 Bloor Street West
LE. 2-4267
Insurance
ALL-WAY ROOFING LTD.
BRINGING SOMEONE OVER?
PassCTQa cnTanced by Stecnner or All
MEMBER OF C.R.C.A.
Cal! for Reservations or
FIAT ROOFS
BA VESTROUGHING
Information — EM. 8-9934
Information.
481-8805
(Residence)
540 Eglinton Ave. W.,
Toronto
Tours—Hotel—Sightseeing
TrcrreUers Cheque*
Obtainable
Travel, Accident
and
733 Danforth Ave.,
Toronto
OSCAR'S
SPORT SHOP
Air—j%hl ]^—B U^—Btrfl
kampai
PARAMOUNT
Gift Shop
SHINGLING
SHEET METAL WORK
ALCAN SIDING DEALER
K. Iwata Travel Service
Toronto
Vancouver
Ph: 368-9934
889 Dundas St. W.
Toronto, Ont.
254-5101
1115 East Hastings St.
Vancouver 6, B.C.
I. KAMEOKA
K. Iwata Travel Service
i
i
i
889 Dundas St. W., Toronto 140 ! |
j_
________________ 2J I
TORONTO
421-3374 NISEI OWNED
Tosh Nishijima
“Covering Ontario”
Night Calls: PL. 9-5095 HI. 7-1100
Page 8
- Friday, August
PAGE 8
Cont. F. Page 7
History . . .
The New Canadlat
Second claw ES3] re9ilbcg_ W
The period between the declara- : appraised and mis-evaluated the They had lost all freedom of
number 03SS
i
1,337 A member of Ethnic Pre8s ’.,..1
tion of war, December 7, 1941, j situation that their province was movement and practically all op- Special Permits ................
Repatriation.
to
Japan.
42
oi Oatario,
and the announcement of com-1 not as important in world strate portunities of engaging m pn- Evacuated voluntarily
plete evacuation on February 26,; gy as they had assumed”; whe vate employment and earning
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Detention, Vancouver
57
to
federal action,
into
two sible retaliation by the Japanese enced livelihood. Jobs of long In
Hastings Park Hospital
105
government against the Cana rears’ standing had gone, Musi
phases.
TOTAL. 21,07?
■p
p' TSUMURa
t
The first phase consists of im dian people in Japan.
ne: cs and homes, farms and
Life on the Prairie
English Section Editor I
When partial evacuation was : stores, built up with years o± | The staff members who inter
mediate precautionary measures
KEN MORI
such as the impounding of fish announced on January 14, 1942. toil were gone. The fruit o. viewed and
Japanese Section Editor |
selected
families
ing boats by the Navy, the in a protected area was established struggle and labor, that an ag
were not fully informed of the
ternment of some forty persons from which “all enemy aliens’ ing generation had hoped to en
479 QUEEN ST. WEST
conditions
under which the Japa
joy in its old age, was snatched
allegedly dangerous to the sec were excluded.
Toronto 133, Ont.
I
nese would work and live.
urity of the state, and the clos
The protected area was a nar- away. The hopes and ambitions
EMpire 6-5005
'
For example, considerable eming of 59 Japanese language row 100 mile-wide strip bound- of a rising generation of Cana
school and 3 vernacular news ed on one side by the Pacific dians were dashed to the ground. j phasies was put on the freedom
papers published in Japanese.
Ocean, the other by the Cascade Family ties, between husband i which beet workers would have
The second phase of this period Range, reaching from Alaska I and wife, father and children, to go into the cities and' to visit
evolved when it was clear that and ending at the American I brother and sister were torn among friends. They also stated
the precautionary measures d’id border. It contained practically .! apart. The Japanese were a lone that the farmer would supply
not satisfy the public; ;a more all the Japanese communities in ly crowd, hemmed in by the mass housing and water. Understand
Female Help Wanted
es of indifferent, or hostile Cana ably, the Japanese jumped at
stringent, but still, moderate poli the province.
HOME SEWERS for :
dians, with only a handful of this opportunity.
cy was attempted by the federal
Less than a month later, the
Will deliver and ’"'ck
C:
government — the announcement Minister of Justice ordered al1 people, believing in them.”
Unfortunately, this information at
363-4588 (Tcrcntc).
of partial evacuation on January male enemy aliens of 18 to 45
It was expected that 4,000 was far from accurate, and the.
SEWING machine oper
14, 1942.
years to leave the protected men would be located in road Japanese soon found' this out.
This moderate policy was not coastal area before April 1st. camps bv April 1st, 1942. By Houses were not suitable for King St. W. Toronto,
accepted by the political, civic, Therefore, on February 24, the March 1st, only 150 had been winter, water had to be hauled in SHIRT presser and - ■cr a;
and union leaders of British Col first contingent of 100 Japanese moved. This plan by the Com from distant points, and free Permanent position. Gc
umbia. They insisted upon the male nationals left Vancouver to mission failed because they tried dom of movement was severely ne 762-1236 (Toronto).
removal of all Japanese east of disembark at Rainbow and Lu- to force family separation with limited. *
OPERATORS for home w
the Rockies. They kept up this ; cerae, British Columbia.
In addition, many farmers factory experience Perr
out any plan for family care.. In
363-8162 (Toronto).
sustained drive until Prime Min
addition, th-3 men knew nothing looked upon the Japanese as
20,000
Evacuated
ister Mackenzie King announced
of their property at home, and prisoners of war or as slave laMale Help Wanted
With increasing bitterness over road' camp wages were far from bor to be exploited. With ali
complete evacuation on Febru
this moderate,
Ottawa policy, satisfactory. Married men usual these harrowing experiences; it IMMEDIATE opening for traassp;
ary 26, 1942.
and' the fall of Singapore on ly ended up with less than 88.00 was not surprising that the Ja- vice technicians tc service in
Wholesale Evacuation
Montreal, Toronto, W|nnipea and '
Thus, the wholesale evacuation |■ February 15, the federal govern- j per month tc meet family ex- panese felt that the federal gov- couver. Must have solid state e
was never conceived as a consci- j! ment had no other alternative i penses.
eminent had deceived them intc ledge in radios, tape recorders
other
electronic unites; Reel?
ous policy from the beginning by j! but to announce on February 26
moving to.the Prairies.
w ritting to:
Inland
Camps
Ottawa; rather, it was forced j that the Japanese would be evacJapan Solid State of Canada
Self-Support Policy
With the completion of arupon the government by pressure 1 uated completely, and on March
3462 Kingston Rd.,
During the evacuation, one Scarboro,
Ont.
4, the British Columbia Security rangements between the federal basic policy the
from British Columbia.
Commission Or phone for appointment: 25645:
The federal government found Commission was established for and provincial governments of stressed was to see that all Ja- Montreal phone 331-5397
Alberta and Manitoba, Japanese panese were able to support
itself in a rather delicate posi carrying out the task.
tion for “not to take action was
Help Wanted
According to this Commission, families were now permitted to themselves.
tantamount to telling British the 20,000 plus Japanese would engage in the sugar-beet industry
The Japanese were granted BILINGUAL person (Japanese 5 E
Columbians that they were wrong, be moved to one of four loca- there. Because such a project al permission to work on Crown to train as audit clerk. Ask :
that although they had lived in tions: “male nationals, chiefly lowed the Japanese to move in timber land in British Columbia Kashino, phone 363-7441 (Tore:
the area where there were only to roadwork in the province family groups, close to 4,000 while thase in Alberta were ex
Production Supervisor
22,000 Japanese in a population the majority of the •second gen persons had left British Colum pected' to get by on what they CAPABLE in assuming respo:
of some 694,000, they had mis- eration to Ontario roads or in bia’s protected area by June made from sugar-beet farming.
for ladies wear manufacturing
Excellent -enumeration. Call ■
dustry;
farming and fishing 25, 1942.
Those
who
were
employable
but
(Toronto).
The
ghost
towns
of
southeast
families to Southern Alberta anc
unemployed
received
very
little
ern
British
Columbia
became
the
Manitoba; thousands of women
HOMEWORKERS, experienced
and children to ghost towns in new homes for over 11,000 Japa government aid and were expect wing ladies dresses. Phone
nese. Towns like Slocan City. ed to make use of their funds (Toronto).
the interior.”
Denver,
Kaslo, and Greenwood, received from the sale of their
Hastings
Exhibition
all
former
mining centres, were property.
Grounds, located in the eastern
All in all, the situation as it
section of Vancouver, became the quickly renovated to meet the in
stood,
meant that the Japanese
assembly point for evacuees from flux of evacuees. As it turned
JAMES KAMINO
could
work
if they were needed,
out,
most
of
the
buildings
were
which this second step of evac
Chartered Accountants
but, prohibited from working if
poorly finished.
uation could be completed.
For most of the Japanese who they were not 'needed.
“By early spring of 1942, the
When they did work, the Ja
215 Victoria St.
20,000 Japanese had reached what had lived for years in the tem
panese
received below-averagc
perate
coastal
climates,
the
hea
was probably the lowest status
Room 301
that any group of comparable vy cold and snow of the first wages. In short, this amounted
364-9913
size had ever experienced. They winter proved to be a real hard to exploited labor.
Toronto.
363-7441
Discrimination
accompanied
(TOBONTO)
had been removed from theii ship. Congestion also meant that
those
who
moved
to
eastern
Can
families
had
to
share
cooking
homes by governmental force.
facilities; as many as fourteen ada as well. The Toronto cifc}
families had to share one large council refused to issue trade
licenses; furthermore, as more
stove in some of the old hotels.
Specializing In Chinese Food
Say it with flowers!
'The following chart shows the and more Japanese moved int<result of evacuation during the Toronto, the city's Board of Con
trol made it a closed city. In
War:
SHARON'S FL0RIS1
Road Camp Projects
9S6 fact, the Japanese were denie:
CITY-WIDE DELIVERY
the right to acquire land,
tc
Sugar-Beet Projects
Businessmen Luncheon
Peter Sasaki — K- Sasaki
grow crops and to buy house:
Alberta
..................
2,535
wherever
they
went.
Manitoba
...............
1
063
We Cater To Parties And Banquets
Bus: HO. 6-2041
Ontario
.................
. 35S
Res: HO. 6-7962
Interior Housing ....
(To be Continued)
11,65!
Kashino &
Weinberg
T,V. Service
TAKE OUT SERVICE
Phone: EM. 3-7646 — EM. 8-0035
123A Dundas St. West
Toronto 2, Ont.
Parking At Bay & Dundas
M2
Nationalsts
; ed the nuclear non-proliferation
i treaty as their campaign target,
j And, until recently, the National
.' Student Institute had been voci■ ferously calling for the return
; to Japan of the northern islands
■ now held by the USSR.
i The same sources said the for; mation of the unified front is
J partly a result of the death of
j rightist Yukio Mishima, whose
; Racism . . .
PANASONIC
TEMPURA/FONDUE COOKER, NF-851
Shallow-cooking 2-quart capacity • Wide range
thermostat control • Circular plate, rack, and
lid ♦ Teflon lining • Insulated double construction • Double safety system • Solid-State
engineered.
FURUYA TRADING CO. LTD.
460 DUNDAS STREET WEST, TORONTO
TELEPHONE: 366-5451-3
When pressed by Sopinka to
: produce evidence of discrimination,
i Lyn spoke haltingly: “This is an
\ atmosphere very difficult to define
in words. It hurts, but you can’t
define it. The person who suffers
' from it keeps quiet and bears it in
; silence or tries to seek justice.”
i
Sydney Robins, lawyer for the
i city, warned Lyn: “It's a serious
; matter to make allegations against
anyone. It could damage the repu: tation of some people.”
Lyn said an efficiency report on
the budget and accounts depart, ment discriminated against senior
: accountants because it did not rec-
-
PAPE
AVE., TORONTO
-----------
2
(Cont. from Page Oney
dramatic suicide has had a grea*
impact on nationalistic students
The sources also said that th?
Metropolitan Police Departmen'1
is very much concerned with the
formation of a new rightist stu
dent front, fearing a possible
head-on clash in the future be
tween the nationalist students
and their “new left” counter
parts.
restaurant
ll
252 Spadina Ave., Toronto
near Dundas
Tel. 565-9744
(Continued from Page 1‘)
ommend a pay raise.
Robins asked why the account
ants did not complain. “Because
we would have been fired on the
spot,” Lyn said.
Lyn said that “denied opportuni
ties for promotion” were a subtle
form of discrimination. “Adver
tisements were placed in such a
manner we wouldn't be able to
qualify even if we could walk on
water.”
He said chartered accountants
(most of whom are from ethnic
minorities) were denied access to
better paying jobs in other divi
sions of the department.
Monday closed
Wedding,
COLOR AND
BLACK & WHITE
DAN EZAKI
n
Toronto
5 Badgered AvePhone 463-S26Until 9:00 p.m-
j
PAGE 8
Cont. F. Page 7
History . . .
The New Canadlat
Second claw ES3] re9ilbcg_ W
The period between the declara- : appraised and mis-evaluated the They had lost all freedom of
number 03SS
i
1,337 A member of Ethnic Pre8s ’.,..1
tion of war, December 7, 1941, j situation that their province was movement and practically all op- Special Permits ................
Repatriation.
to
Japan.
42
oi Oatario,
and the announcement of com-1 not as important in world strate portunities of engaging m pn- Evacuated voluntarily
plete evacuation on February 26,; gy as they had assumed”; whe vate employment and earning
PUBLISHED ON EVERY TUESDAY I
prior to March, 1942
579
AND FRIDAY
“^l
eoe
1942, can be divided with respect j reas. to take action meant pos anything more than a subsist- Internment Camps ..........
T. UMEZUKI Publisher I
Detention, Vancouver
57
to
federal action,
into
two sible retaliation by the Japanese enced livelihood. Jobs of long In
Hastings Park Hospital
105
government against the Cana rears’ standing had gone, Musi
phases.
TOTAL. 21,07?
■p
p' TSUMURa
t
The first phase consists of im dian people in Japan.
ne: cs and homes, farms and
Life on the Prairie
English Section Editor I
When partial evacuation was : stores, built up with years o± | The staff members who inter
mediate precautionary measures
KEN MORI
such as the impounding of fish announced on January 14, 1942. toil were gone. The fruit o. viewed and
Japanese Section Editor |
selected
families
ing boats by the Navy, the in a protected area was established struggle and labor, that an ag
were not fully informed of the
ternment of some forty persons from which “all enemy aliens’ ing generation had hoped to en
479 QUEEN ST. WEST
conditions
under which the Japa
joy in its old age, was snatched
allegedly dangerous to the sec were excluded.
Toronto 133, Ont.
I
nese would work and live.
urity of the state, and the clos
The protected area was a nar- away. The hopes and ambitions
EMpire 6-5005
'
For example, considerable eming of 59 Japanese language row 100 mile-wide strip bound- of a rising generation of Cana
school and 3 vernacular news ed on one side by the Pacific dians were dashed to the ground. j phasies was put on the freedom
papers published in Japanese.
Ocean, the other by the Cascade Family ties, between husband i which beet workers would have
The second phase of this period Range, reaching from Alaska I and wife, father and children, to go into the cities and' to visit
evolved when it was clear that and ending at the American I brother and sister were torn among friends. They also stated
the precautionary measures d’id border. It contained practically .! apart. The Japanese were a lone that the farmer would supply
not satisfy the public; ;a more all the Japanese communities in ly crowd, hemmed in by the mass housing and water. Understand
Female Help Wanted
es of indifferent, or hostile Cana ably, the Japanese jumped at
stringent, but still, moderate poli the province.
HOME SEWERS for :
dians, with only a handful of this opportunity.
cy was attempted by the federal
Less than a month later, the
Will deliver and ’"'ck
C:
government — the announcement Minister of Justice ordered al1 people, believing in them.”
Unfortunately, this information at
363-4588 (Tcrcntc).
of partial evacuation on January male enemy aliens of 18 to 45
It was expected that 4,000 was far from accurate, and the.
SEWING machine oper
14, 1942.
years to leave the protected men would be located in road Japanese soon found' this out.
This moderate policy was not coastal area before April 1st. camps bv April 1st, 1942. By Houses were not suitable for King St. W. Toronto,
accepted by the political, civic, Therefore, on February 24, the March 1st, only 150 had been winter, water had to be hauled in SHIRT presser and - ■cr a;
and union leaders of British Col first contingent of 100 Japanese moved. This plan by the Com from distant points, and free Permanent position. Gc
umbia. They insisted upon the male nationals left Vancouver to mission failed because they tried dom of movement was severely ne 762-1236 (Toronto).
removal of all Japanese east of disembark at Rainbow and Lu- to force family separation with limited. *
OPERATORS for home w
the Rockies. They kept up this ; cerae, British Columbia.
In addition, many farmers factory experience Perr
out any plan for family care.. In
363-8162 (Toronto).
sustained drive until Prime Min
addition, th-3 men knew nothing looked upon the Japanese as
20,000
Evacuated
ister Mackenzie King announced
of their property at home, and prisoners of war or as slave laMale Help Wanted
With increasing bitterness over road' camp wages were far from bor to be exploited. With ali
complete evacuation on Febru
this moderate,
Ottawa policy, satisfactory. Married men usual these harrowing experiences; it IMMEDIATE opening for traassp;
ary 26, 1942.
and' the fall of Singapore on ly ended up with less than 88.00 was not surprising that the Ja- vice technicians tc service in
Wholesale Evacuation
Montreal, Toronto, W|nnipea and '
Thus, the wholesale evacuation |■ February 15, the federal govern- j per month tc meet family ex- panese felt that the federal gov- couver. Must have solid state e
was never conceived as a consci- j! ment had no other alternative i penses.
eminent had deceived them intc ledge in radios, tape recorders
other
electronic unites; Reel?
ous policy from the beginning by j! but to announce on February 26
moving to.the Prairies.
w ritting to:
Inland
Camps
Ottawa; rather, it was forced j that the Japanese would be evacJapan Solid State of Canada
Self-Support Policy
With the completion of arupon the government by pressure 1 uated completely, and on March
3462 Kingston Rd.,
During the evacuation, one Scarboro,
Ont.
4, the British Columbia Security rangements between the federal basic policy the
from British Columbia.
Commission Or phone for appointment: 25645:
The federal government found Commission was established for and provincial governments of stressed was to see that all Ja- Montreal phone 331-5397
Alberta and Manitoba, Japanese panese were able to support
itself in a rather delicate posi carrying out the task.
tion for “not to take action was
Help Wanted
According to this Commission, families were now permitted to themselves.
tantamount to telling British the 20,000 plus Japanese would engage in the sugar-beet industry
The Japanese were granted BILINGUAL person (Japanese 5 E
Columbians that they were wrong, be moved to one of four loca- there. Because such a project al permission to work on Crown to train as audit clerk. Ask :
that although they had lived in tions: “male nationals, chiefly lowed the Japanese to move in timber land in British Columbia Kashino, phone 363-7441 (Tore:
the area where there were only to roadwork in the province family groups, close to 4,000 while thase in Alberta were ex
Production Supervisor
22,000 Japanese in a population the majority of the •second gen persons had left British Colum pected' to get by on what they CAPABLE in assuming respo:
of some 694,000, they had mis- eration to Ontario roads or in bia’s protected area by June made from sugar-beet farming.
for ladies wear manufacturing
Excellent -enumeration. Call ■
dustry;
farming and fishing 25, 1942.
Those
who
were
employable
but
(Toronto).
The
ghost
towns
of
southeast
families to Southern Alberta anc
unemployed
received
very
little
ern
British
Columbia
became
the
Manitoba; thousands of women
HOMEWORKERS, experienced
and children to ghost towns in new homes for over 11,000 Japa government aid and were expect wing ladies dresses. Phone
nese. Towns like Slocan City. ed to make use of their funds (Toronto).
the interior.”
Denver,
Kaslo, and Greenwood, received from the sale of their
Hastings
Exhibition
all
former
mining centres, were property.
Grounds, located in the eastern
All in all, the situation as it
section of Vancouver, became the quickly renovated to meet the in
stood,
meant that the Japanese
assembly point for evacuees from flux of evacuees. As it turned
JAMES KAMINO
could
work
if they were needed,
out,
most
of
the
buildings
were
which this second step of evac
Chartered Accountants
but, prohibited from working if
poorly finished.
uation could be completed.
For most of the Japanese who they were not 'needed.
“By early spring of 1942, the
When they did work, the Ja
215 Victoria St.
20,000 Japanese had reached what had lived for years in the tem
panese
received below-averagc
perate
coastal
climates,
the
hea
was probably the lowest status
Room 301
that any group of comparable vy cold and snow of the first wages. In short, this amounted
364-9913
size had ever experienced. They winter proved to be a real hard to exploited labor.
Toronto.
363-7441
Discrimination
accompanied
(TOBONTO)
had been removed from theii ship. Congestion also meant that
those
who
moved
to
eastern
Can
families
had
to
share
cooking
homes by governmental force.
facilities; as many as fourteen ada as well. The Toronto cifc}
families had to share one large council refused to issue trade
licenses; furthermore, as more
stove in some of the old hotels.
Specializing In Chinese Food
Say it with flowers!
'The following chart shows the and more Japanese moved int<result of evacuation during the Toronto, the city's Board of Con
trol made it a closed city. In
War:
SHARON'S FL0RIS1
Road Camp Projects
9S6 fact, the Japanese were denie:
CITY-WIDE DELIVERY
the right to acquire land,
tc
Sugar-Beet Projects
Businessmen Luncheon
Peter Sasaki — K- Sasaki
grow crops and to buy house:
Alberta
..................
2,535
wherever
they
went.
Manitoba
...............
1
063
We Cater To Parties And Banquets
Bus: HO. 6-2041
Ontario
.................
. 35S
Res: HO. 6-7962
Interior Housing ....
(To be Continued)
11,65!
Kashino &
Weinberg
T,V. Service
TAKE OUT SERVICE
Phone: EM. 3-7646 — EM. 8-0035
123A Dundas St. West
Toronto 2, Ont.
Parking At Bay & Dundas
M2
Nationalsts
; ed the nuclear non-proliferation
i treaty as their campaign target,
j And, until recently, the National
.' Student Institute had been voci■ ferously calling for the return
; to Japan of the northern islands
■ now held by the USSR.
i The same sources said the for; mation of the unified front is
J partly a result of the death of
j rightist Yukio Mishima, whose
; Racism . . .
PANASONIC
TEMPURA/FONDUE COOKER, NF-851
Shallow-cooking 2-quart capacity • Wide range
thermostat control • Circular plate, rack, and
lid ♦ Teflon lining • Insulated double construction • Double safety system • Solid-State
engineered.
FURUYA TRADING CO. LTD.
460 DUNDAS STREET WEST, TORONTO
TELEPHONE: 366-5451-3
When pressed by Sopinka to
: produce evidence of discrimination,
i Lyn spoke haltingly: “This is an
\ atmosphere very difficult to define
in words. It hurts, but you can’t
define it. The person who suffers
' from it keeps quiet and bears it in
; silence or tries to seek justice.”
i
Sydney Robins, lawyer for the
i city, warned Lyn: “It's a serious
; matter to make allegations against
anyone. It could damage the repu: tation of some people.”
Lyn said an efficiency report on
the budget and accounts depart, ment discriminated against senior
: accountants because it did not rec-
-
PAPE
AVE., TORONTO
-----------
2
(Cont. from Page Oney
dramatic suicide has had a grea*
impact on nationalistic students
The sources also said that th?
Metropolitan Police Departmen'1
is very much concerned with the
formation of a new rightist stu
dent front, fearing a possible
head-on clash in the future be
tween the nationalist students
and their “new left” counter
parts.
restaurant
ll
252 Spadina Ave., Toronto
near Dundas
Tel. 565-9744
(Continued from Page 1‘)
ommend a pay raise.
Robins asked why the account
ants did not complain. “Because
we would have been fired on the
spot,” Lyn said.
Lyn said that “denied opportuni
ties for promotion” were a subtle
form of discrimination. “Adver
tisements were placed in such a
manner we wouldn't be able to
qualify even if we could walk on
water.”
He said chartered accountants
(most of whom are from ethnic
minorities) were denied access to
better paying jobs in other divi
sions of the department.
Monday closed
Wedding,
COLOR AND
BLACK & WHITE
DAN EZAKI
n
Toronto
5 Badgered AvePhone 463-S26Until 9:00 p.m-
j