Halford Wilson Miscellaneous Notes

Halford Wilson Miscellaneous Notes

Description

Title Proper PR0038 MS0012 BOX 2 FILE 32
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
Halford Wilson was a Vancouver alderman and well-known anti-Orientalist. This file contains miscellaneous notes including a list of articles and textbooks Wilson plans to read. Also in this file is some spoof trial featuring Chief Blunder, Nicklecooper and Ginslinger; a handwritten copy of Ogden Nash’s poem “The Japanese”; and a telephone message reporting a wild arrest: “I understand that Japanese boat tried to escape from Ocean Falls and was stopped by R.C.M.P. and the Officer tried to get aboard the boat and was thrown over the side and held under by the Japs. The R.C.M.P. were reported to have killed three Japs with machine gun fire and brought back the boat.”
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 Miscellaneous Notes
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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.