Halford Wilson Papers Anti-Japanese Letters

Halford Wilson Papers Anti-Japanese Letters

Description

Title Proper PR0038 MS0012 BOX 2 FILE 30
Date(s) 1931
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
Halford Wilson was a Vancouver alderman and well-known anti-Orientalist. This file contains extracts from various letters to the editor (author’s unknown) complaining about Japanese militarism abroad and immigration in British Columbia.
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 Anti-Japanese Letters
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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.