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.
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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.”
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Name of creator |
Wilson, Halford David, 1904-1988
created this archive during his time as a Vancouver politician.
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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 in full.
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Structure
Repository | British Columbia Archives |
Fonds | Halford Wilson Fonds |
Series | Correspondence and Papers |
Sub-series | PR0038 MS0012 BOX 2 |
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Halford Wilson Miscellaneous Notes
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Terminology
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