Receipts, "Repatriation" Cheque, Citizenship Documentation, Land Titles, Wartime Correspondence; 1918-1959

Receipts, "Repatriation" Cheque, Citizenship Documentation, Land Titles, Wartime Correspondence; 1918-1959

Description

Title Proper Receipts, "Repatriation" Cheque, Citizenship Documentation, Land Titles, Wartime Correspondence; 1918-1959
Date(s) 1918-1995
General material designation
This file contains 11 textual records and other records.
Scope and content
This file contains a wide variety of documents that relate to the deportation (or “repatriation”) of Japanese Canadians and the Tonomura family in the 1940s. These documents were donated together in an envelope with the title “Dad’s Land Titles” written by hand. The documents include a receipt for services and “repatriation” cheque from the government of Canada crumpled together. The file also includes incarceration (or internment) details, an envelope from Angler, insurance policies and a lease for the family’s property from the initial uprooting, in 1942.
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

Receipts, "Repatriation" Cheque, Citizenship Documentation, Land Titles, Wartime Correspondence; 1918-1959
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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.