Land Sale Complaint
Description
| Title Proper | F0 GR1222 BOX 043 FILE 01 |
| Date(s) | 1942 |
| General material designation |
This file contains a textual record.
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| Scope and content |
This file contains a letter from a disgruntled RCAF corporal and WWI veteran over the “tax sale” of his land in Maple Ridge. The corporal has “no intention of submitting to this land grab meekly” and sees
higher taxes for high schools as a conspiracy to “give more education to the Japs
and Germans who, in the immediate vicinity of [his] place, own almost all the land.”
Corporal MacCaig conflates his own personal misfortunes with a racist worldview stating
that “the Japs” make sure there is no “dearth of little Japs to fill up all the new
space in the new school.”
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| Name of creator |
The Provincial Government of British Columbia created this archive.
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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.
This record was digitized selectively.
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Structure
| Repository | British Columbia Archives |
| Fonds | Government Records Collection |
| Series | Premier's Papers |
| Sub-series | F0 GR1222 BOX 043 |
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Title
Land Sale Complaint
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