Family records
Description
| Title Proper | Family records |
| Date(s) | 1890–1980 |
| General material designation |
This series contains 164 textual records and other records.
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| Scope and content |
This series consists of personal and business records of the Tonomura family. Includes
official records that correspond to the Tonomura family's immigration and settlement
in Canada, forced deportation and re-settlement in Japan in the late 1940s, and then
return to Canada in the 1960s. This includes birth and residency records; correspondence
pertaining to immigration and refugee status; land titles, lease agreements, and insurance
policies in Canada and Japan; receipts from donations to Buddhist Temple in Japan
and from the family's yoghurt business. There are also several guest books from family
funerals in Japan.
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| Name of creator |
The
Tonomura family
created these records.
|
| Immediate source of acquisition |
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research
Collective between 2014 and 2018.
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Structure
| Repository | Nikkei National Museum |
| Fonds | Tonomura Family collection |
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Title
Family records
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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.