Minutes of the Federal-Provincial Conference of Mental Health Directors

Minutes of the Federal-Provincial Conference of Mental Health Directors

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Title Proper F0 GR0496 BOX 38 FILE 07
Date(s) 1946
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Minutes of a meeting held in Ottawa. On page five it outlines the regulation for immigrants with mental illness. It describes an unwritten law and legislative procedures allowing for the deportation of immigrants who have been in the country for less than five years. These procedures may have been related to the deportation of Japanese Canadians out of mental hospitals.
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The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
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Minutes of the Federal-Provincial Conference of Mental Health Directors
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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.