Correspondence with Premier Regarding Status of Japanese Canadians

Correspondence with Premier Regarding Status of Japanese Canadians

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Title Proper F0 GR1222 BOX 174 FILE 09
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1944
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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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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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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 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.