Archive & Collections
The Archive and Collections at the JCCC house over 50 years of donated histories, artifacts and photographs. The Archive and Collections are used for personal and academic research, permanent and temporary exhibits and as supporting materials in publications and exhibits outside of the JCCC.
The Archive and Collections relies on volunteers for cataloguing, photographing, and data entry of donated items. If you wish to learn more about volunteering with the Archive and Collections, please submit a volunteer profile on the Volunteer page.
If you have items pertaining to Japanese Canadian history that you would like to donate to the Archive and Collections, please contact Theressa Takasaki at theressat@jccc.on.ca for more information.
In partnership with the Nikkei National Museum, our collections can be searched online by clicking the button below.
Additional Resources
Landscapes of Injustice Digital Archives
The LOI digital archive collections are the culmination of a four-year intensive research period conducted by project members. It includes a diverse array of materials from archival and government records to oral histories as well as land titles records and transcribed directories.
This archive boasts 32,042 html documents collected from over 20 archives and repositories from Canada, the US and UK, including from the NNMCC.
Japanese Canadian National Digitization Strategy
This strategy is an official policy that will be adopted by the NNMCC and JCCC to help identify and prioritize records from our collections for digitization. We share this strategy widely across Canada to encourage archives, museums, galleries, and heritage organizations to help us meet our goal to increase the preservation and access of records created by and about Japanese Canadians.
Directory of Japanese Residing in Canada (1929) by Nakayama Jinshiro
Published by the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Heritage Committee (2009)