Halford Wilson Papers Regarding Immigration

Halford Wilson Papers Regarding Immigration

Description

Title Proper PR0038 MS0012 BOX 2 FILE 07
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1938
General material designation
From this file, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
Scope and content
This file contains an interim report on Japanese immigration. The report outlines a “program for the summer” in which 133 cases will be “carefully inspected” by the RCMP by random sampling. The report ends with a table of a “cross section of the Japanese Community in B.C. and type of economic life together with an estimate of the Japanese population.”
Name of creator
Wilson, Halford David, 1904-1988 created this archive during his time as a Vancouver politician.
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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Halford Wilson Papers Regarding Immigration
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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.