Correspondence with Premier Regarding Status of Japanese Canadians
Description
Title Proper | F0 GR1222 BOX 174 FILE 09 |
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized | 1944 |
General material designation |
From this file, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
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Scope and content |
This file contains correspondence regarding the status of Japanese Canadians in British Columbia largely centred on the question of “repatriation." The majority of the correspondence
is between different interests groups in BC (including the Loyal Order of the Moose and the Native Sons of BC) and the Premier. There is also a request from the American Navy for information
on “The Consultative Committee on Problems of Wartime Citizenship,” a group dedicated to achieving enfranchisement for Japanese Canadians as well as
other marginalized groups. Also in this file is a copy of a letter from this group
to Prime Minister Mackenzie King calling the forced removal of Japanese Canadians “wicked and preposterous” as well
as a “characteristic attitude of Nazism” and a police report on a “public indignation
meeting” held in Kamloops. Of particular note on dispossession is a letter from the
City of Kamloops, 18 March 1944, informing the Premier that land in the area is “being purchased by
or for persons of Japanese origin”.
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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 in full.
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Structure
Repository | British Columbia Archives |
Fonds | Government Records Collection |
Series | Premier's Papers |
Sub-series | F0 GR1222 BOX 174 |
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Title
Correspondence with Premier Regarding Status of Japanese Canadians
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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
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choices in writing and speaking about this topic today as we confront past injustice.
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