Black Binder Files - Jisaburo Wakabayashi

Black Binder Files - Jisaburo Wakabayashi

Description

Title Proper Black Binder Files - Jisaburo Wakabayashi
Date(s) 1917–1983
General material designation
This file contains 78 textual records and other records.
Scope and content
File contains the former contents of a black binder filled with primary documents relating to Jisaburo Wakabayashi. Includes Custodian correspondence, permit to leave Canada 1917 with photo, conditional bill of sale for 2145 Commercial Drive to Jisaburo in 1938, list of property 1942 at 8722 Selkirk street, personal letters during internment, letters to and from Consul Ferdinando de Kobbe, Pedro. E Schwartz, Vice Consul Bernard and Count of Morales (Consulate of Spain), lists of Japanese nationals in Rosebery and children, also those on social assistance, customs/immigration documents, citizenship papers, and newspaper articles from the 1980s dealing with topics of internment. Also contains organizational notes written by Henry Wakabayashi. Topics include property, chattels, internment, repatriation, supplies, and camp living conditions.
Name of creator
Henry Wakabayashi is the founder of Pacific Liaicon Ltd., he has helped many major projects such as the Vancouver Sky Train, the expansion of the Vancouver International Airport and the Metro Vancouver drinking water treatment program.
Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

Digital Objects (78)

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Black Binder Files - Jisaburo Wakabayashi
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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.