Correspondence on the rights of Japanese Canadians

Correspondence on the rights of Japanese Canadians

Description

Title Proper F0 GR1222 BOX 206 FILE 03
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1949
General material designation
From this file, LOI has digitized a textual records or images.
Scope and content
Correspondence between Premier Johnson and the Japanese Canadian Citizens Association thanking him for revoking the restriction on Japanese Canadian voting rights. Letters sent from students of the University of British Columbia to Premier Johnson protesting the possible reinstatement of a law preventing Japanese Canadians from working on Crown Timbers are also included.
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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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Correspondence on the 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.