William Hartley Editorial Regarding Japanese-Canadian Dispossession

William Hartley Editorial Regarding Japanese-Canadian Dispossession

Description

Title Proper PR0861 MS2917 BOX 1 FILE HM
Date(s) 1980
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file include a newspaper clipping from the Hope Standard newspaper article titled “Japanese Weren’t Wronged” by Don Low. The file also includes an editorial response from William Hartley. Low claimed that Japanese Canadians benefited from internment and dispossession. Hartley reminds Low that Japanese Canadians had all of their assets forcibly removed from them.
Name of creator
Hartley, William created this archive from his time as an MLA in BC.
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 selectively.

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Title

William Hartley Editorial Regarding Japanese-Canadian Dispossession
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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.