Part B: Indian Commissioner for British Columbia - War - Indian claims for damages resulting from seizure of Japanese-owned fishing vessel BROUGHTON I - General. 1941-1943.

Part B: Indian Commissioner for British Columbia - War - Indian claims for damages resulting from seizure of Japanese-owned fishing vessel BROUGHTON I - General. 1941-1943.

Description

Title Proper RG10 VOLUME 11288 FILE 214-B
Date(s) 1941
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file contains an account of a curious case of dispossession. According to these documents, sometime in early 1942, naval authorities at Alert Bay, BC confiscated a boat ("Broughton No. 1") belonging to (and operated by) a crew of Indigenous fishermen on the grounds that the boat was previously owned by a Canadian of Japanese descent (C. Nakamura). Authorities ordered them to take only what they needed immediately and piled everything else onto the dock. These belongings were left out in the rain overnight and were utterly destroyed. Beyond their loss of livelihood, these men appealed seeking compensation for the damages to their own property and for reimbursement of gas (recently bought) and other equipment on the boat of their own purchase.
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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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Part B: Indian Commissioner for British Columbia - War - Indian claims for damages resulting from seizure of Japanese-owned fishing vessel BROUGHTON I - General. 1941-1943.
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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.