Documents concerning the post-war rights of Japanese Canadians

Documents concerning the post-war rights of Japanese Canadians

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Title Proper F0 GR1222 BOX 187 FILE 07
Date(s) 1945
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Scope and content
Correspondence, resolutions, editorials and reports on the rights of Japanese Canadians after the war. The main topics are concern over the return of Japanese Canadians to the coast, the exile of Japanese Canadians, the right to own or lease property, voting rights, and the use of Japanese labour. There are several letters calling for exile and the continued restriction of rights; however, a number of organizations called for the forced exile to be stopped, including the Unity Club of the Labor-Progressive Party, Quebec Provincial C.C.F Council, Kimberley Mine and Mill Workers’ Union, and the Sacred Heart Church of Greenwood B.C.
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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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Documents concerning the post-war rights 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.