Premier's Papers

From this series, LOI has digitized 54 textual records or images.

This series comprises thirty-five sub-series containing correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, and various letters pertaining to a wide variety of issues: fishing regulations off the coast of Alaska, USA; the mayors of the British Columbian municipalities; property ownership regarding the Hutterites of southern Alberta; a report from the Department of Fisheries regarding Japanese Canadian fishing licences; the building progress of a highway north of Kaslo, British Columbia; minutes from a convention in Qualicum for the Union of British Columbian Municipalities; correspondence between Premier John Hart and the British Columbia Fruit Growers’ Association regarding polls on the Hope-Princeton Highway; a report regarding Vancouver housing; a report called "the housing situation in Vancouver"; licences regarding salting salmon; reports regarding anti-Japanese hostilities towards Nikkei communities; correspondence regarding enlisting Japanese Canadians in the army during World War II; correspondence between Premier Hart to Prime Minister Mackenzie King regarding Japanese Canadian populations; discussion of education of Japanese Canadians and conditions of Japanese Canadian labour work camps; a report of a Canadian "repatriate" located in north China; a Japanese Canadian work project in Cawston, British Columbia; a report from the Department of Commonwealth Relations regarding "economic rivalry between white and non-white races"; the trade of lumber to Japan; a protest letter from a white Canadian complaining about the renewal of Japanese Canadian fishing licences; correspondence concerning the registration and internment of enemy aliens; a petition from the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees demanding the removal of Japanese Canadians from the coast of British Columbia; and a report regarding the changing rights of Japanese Canadians by the end of World War II, including lifted Japanese Canadian voting rights.

The Provincial Government of British Columbia created this archive.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.