Student Letters

Student Letters

Description

Title Proper pr1073 MS2119 BOX 1 FILE 11
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1945
General material designation
From this file, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
Scope and content
Many of the documents in this file are letters to Awmack from former Tashme High students. The letters were written by students who had left Tashme for the prairies and eastern Canada. A few students write about their experiences doing housework for room and board (or working on the farm) while they attend post-secondary school. There is a sense of nostalgia for Tashme and their days as students in a majority of the letters.
Name of creator
Awmack, Winifred J. , a teacher at Tashme High School, created this archive.
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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Student Letters
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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.