Correspondence between Superintendent of Child Protection and Canadian Welfare Council

Description

Title Proper	F0 GR0883 BOX 05 FILE 11
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized	1942
General material designation	From this file, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
Scope and content	File contains letters between G. Cameron Parker, Acting Executive Director of the Canadian Welfare Council, and Isobel Harvey, provincial Superintendent of Child Protection. Parker expressed intent to write an article about incarceration and family separation from a social work perspective in upcoming issue of Welfare publication; Harvey rejected the idea. Harvey indicated that ‘we have a Japanese student in our Social Service Course’ and compared coerced family separation to routine separation of fishermen and loggers from their families. She indicated that there was no official information regarding ‘evacuation plans’ and expressed hope that the federal government would appoint a committee including representatives of Child Welfare, Metropolitan Health and schools.
Name of creator	The Provincial Government of British Columbia created this archive.
Immediate source of acquisition	The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018. This record was digitized selectively.

Structure

Repository	British Columbia Archives
Fonds	Government Records Collection
Series	Child Welfare
Sub-series	F0 GR0883 BOX 05

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Title

Correspondence between Superintendent of Child Protection and Canadian Welfare Council

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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.