Riverview Mental Hospital

Riverview Mental Hospital

Description

Title Proper Riverview Mental Hospital
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1937-1968
General material designation
From this fonds, LOI has digitized 30 textual records or images.
Scope and content
This fonds contains thirty patient files for Japanese Canadians who were admitted to Essondale Mental Health Hospital. These records were reviewed by archivists under the Provincial Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act before review and description by the LOI team.
Name of creator
British Columbia. Mental Health Services created this archive which were transferred to the BC Archives from 1987 to 2000.
Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

Structure

Repository British Columbia Archives

Metadata

Title

Riverview Mental Hospital
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Terminology

Readers of these historical materials will encounter derogatory references to Japanese Canadians and euphemisms used to obscure the intent and impacts of the internment and dispossession. While these are important realities of the history, the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective urges users to carefully consider their own terminological choices in writing and speaking about this topic today as we confront past injustice. See our statement on terminology, and related sources here.