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Title

Arrival of "enemy aliens" at Québec.

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Item (linked) part of

Eric Koch fonds [textual record, graphic material, sound recording] (R2408-0-5-E)

Date(s)

ca. 1940

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 drawing / dessin : pen and black ink and watercolour over pencil on laid paper mounted on cardboard
Support: 21.800 x 20.300 cm (sheet)
Secondary support: 22.800 x 21.600 cm (mount)

Scope and content

This illustration is reproduced in Eric Koch, Deemed Suspect: A Wartime Blunder. In Spring, 1940, the British Gov't interned 30,000 refugees from Nazi Germany and Austria as 'enemy aliens'. In July 2,290 were sent to Canada. This sketch depicts their arrival at Québec.

Conditions of access

Graphic (art)

90: Open
No physical access restriction

Graphic (art)
Copy negative C-137145

90: Open

Graphic (art)

90: Open

Item no. assigned by LAC
00001

90: Open

Other accession no.

1985-056 PIC
00001

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1985-56-1 Source: Transfer, MSS Division, Eric Koch Papers, MG30 C192.
Copyright: unknown

Additional name(s)

Artist: Unknown.

Additional information

Exhibitions note

Exhibition title: Humour Under Fire. Curators: Teressa Macintosh, Canadian Museum of Caricature, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1991.10.17-1992.02.02.

Signatures and inscriptions

Inscribed. Dated.
Inscription: Not transcribed.

Subject heading

1. Québec.
2. military activity.
3. activité militaire.
4. SUBJ. - Activity : Depicting View Of Arrivals From Nazi Germany & Austria Of Refugees, At Québec.
5. Québec (Québec) .

Source

Private

Other system control no.

ICON64871

MIKAN no.

3665438