Correspondence, reports etc. relating to the evacuation of Japanese in British Columbia

Correspondence, reports etc. relating to the evacuation of Japanese in British Columbia

Description

Title Proper F2 GR1762 REEL B08409 FILE 6-0-7
Date(s) 1938
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file mostly contains reports from the Department of National Defence on the evacuation of Japanese nationals and Japanese Canadians from the Pacific coast of British Columbia. There is a range of documents in this file. For example, the first written document is notes from an interview with Austin C. Taylor, “formerly” Chairman of the BC Security Commission, who recommended the deportation of “Japanese Nationals” and “Naturalized Japanese-Canadians.” Another interview with Colonel A.W. Sparling reveals that a report written by the The Special Committee on Orientals in BC was not signed by Sparling himself, but by Keenleyside. This file also includes a chronological list of events starting with the outbreak of World War II and ending with short descriptions of the Fraser Valley Farm Land Transfer, 19 June 1943, and the termination of the BC Security Commission, 5 February 1943. There is also a notice issued by the RCMP, addressed “TO MALE ENEMY ALIENS,” and a report by BC Police Commissioner T.W.S. Parsons.
Name of creator
BC Archives collected this archive.
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, reports etc. relating to the evacuation of Japanese in British Columbia
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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.