Memorandum: Re: Japanese Labour on Blue River Highway [September 28th]

Memorandum: Re: Japanese Labour on Blue River Highway [September 28th]

Description

Title Proper RG2 A-5-B REEL C-04874 FILE D ITEM 5
Date(s) 1942
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This item is a memorandum, dated 28 September 1942, that concerns Japanese Canadian labour on Blue River Highway. This document, written by A.D.P. Heeney, comes as a response to anxieties expressed about Japanese labourers in work camps doing work in close proximity to the railroads. Heeney suggests that in light of the reduced threat of sabotage (with the removal of married men, resentful in being separated from their families), single men be permitted to continue work.
Name of creator
Canada. Privy Council Office 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.
The digitization level of this record is unknown.

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Memorandum: Re: Japanese Labour on Blue River Highway [September 28th]
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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.