File 1: Archival file re housing, lodging houses

File 1: Archival file re housing, lodging houses

Description

Title Proper COV S069 BOX 145-C-1 FILE 1
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1913
General material designation
From this file, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
Scope and content
This file includes archival records of the Director of Environmental Health relating to housing and lodging houses in Vancouver from as early as 1913 to 1956. Included are discussions of the "oriental death rate"; of the lodging houses on Powell Street and Hastings street; maps of the city; concerns regarding control over new buildings; and reports regarding West Vancouver and care for elderly citizens. These records reveal influences from UK housing policy traditions and imperial understandings of settlement.
Name of creator
Vancouver (B.C.) created or collected 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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File 1: Archival file re housing, lodging houses
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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.