Riverview Mental Hospital
Description
| Title Proper | Riverview Mental Hospital |
| Date(s) | 1937-1968 |
| General material designation |
This fonds contains 30 textual records.
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| 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.
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| Name of creator |
British Columbia. Mental Health Services
created this archive which were transferred to the BC Archives from 1987 to 2000.
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| Immediate source of acquisition |
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research
Collective between 2014 and 2018.
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Structure
| Repository | British Columbia Archives |
Metadata
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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.
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