File 1: National Archives – Correspondence, 1944-45

File 1: National Archives – Correspondence, 1944-45

Description

Title Proper M6 SERIES 2 FILE 1
Date(s) 1944
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file includes copies of archival records from 1944 to 1945 relating to Japanese Canadian internment. Collected from Library and Archives Canada, the records concern the forced uprooting and "re-settlement" of Japanese Canadians in eastern Canada with the closure of internment camps. The file also includes discussion of "voluntary repatriation" and records concerning the Yellowhead-Blue River road camp and the closing of Sandon.
Name of creator
Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre 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.

Metadata

Title

File 1: National Archives – Correspondence, 1944-45
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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.