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Although The New Canadian, the Voice of the Second Generation, “devoted a considerable amount of space to community news, reporting on a plethora of social and athletic activities, its essential concern was with problems of race relations.

Most important of all, it led the drive for unconditional acceptance in Canadian life for Japanese Canadians. Often written with verve, the newspaper soon pricked the attention of the Vancouver dailies and, at times, of the national press… It was through The New Canadian and its editorials that, for the first time in their history, the Japanese in Canada could present their views to the white majority.”

– Ken Adachi, The Enemy That Never Was