Deportation and Re-settlement to Japan Correspondence

Deportation and Re-settlement to Japan Correspondence

Description

Title Proper Deportation and Re-settlement to Japan Correspondence
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1940–1950
General material designation
From this file, LOI has digitized 8 textual records and other records.
Scope and content
This file contains a series of documents relating to the deportation of the Tonomura family from Canada in the late 1940s. It includes correspondence (with supporting evidence) to the Japanese immigration department explaining their situation and requesting refugee status. These documents were contained within a single envelope and then folded together into two bundles.
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.

Metadata

Title

Deportation and Re-settlement to Japan Correspondence
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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.