File 5475-W-4-40 Part1 : “Economic and Social Council, Commission on Human Rights, Complaints RE: Treatment of Japanese in Canada.”
Description
Title Proper | RG25 VOLUME 3690 FILE 5475-W-4-40-1 |
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized | 1948 |
General material designation |
From this file, LOI has digitized a textual records or images.
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Scope and content |
This file contains United Nations documents and correspondence (specifically of the Economic and Social Council) concerning the petitions of Japanese Canadians against the federal government. Other
correspondence contains government officials debating internally whether to give a
public response, drafting such a response, and noting that the racist legislation
protested against by Japanese Canadians expires on 01 April 1949 (the claims were
made in March 1949).
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Name of creator |
Canada. Department of External Affairs
created this archive.
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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 | Library and Archives Canada |
Fonds | Department of External Affairs Fonds |
Series | RG25 VOLUME 3690 |
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Title
File 5475-W-4-40 Part1 : “Economic and Social Council, Commission on Human Rights,
Complaints RE: Treatment of Japanese in Canada.”
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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.