nnm_f557_volume_s1689_file_f2301

nnm_f557_volume_s1689_file_f2301

Description

Title Proper Japanese Assignments 9th Sept [Deportation Claimants]
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized
General material designation
From this file, LOI has digitized a textual record.
Scope and content
This folder is titled “Japanese Assignments 9th Sept, D1”.This file consists of a list of Habeas Corpus release forms sent to McMaster. This list is 4 pages and is identified as “list no. 4”. The list indicates Japanese Canadians who McMaster is representing, their location (largely in the interior), and nationality status. A number is included, which might be their registration number. In pencil, someone has checked off each name. The file also includes the three release forms, exonerating Campbell, Brazier, Fisher and McMaster Barristers and Solicitors from being sued by Japanese claimants represented by the firm in respect to “threatened deportation of persons of the Japanese race by the Government of the Dominion of Canada”. They are signed in summer 1947.
The clients include:
Kaneiji, Ohara – Kelowna, B.C.
MorigumaTokumaga [sp?] – Sinclair Mills, B.C.
Takeo Arakawa – Westbank, B.C.
Name of creator
R.J. McMaster was a committee member of the Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians, while he was employed as an attorney for Campbell, Brazier, Fisher and McMaster Barristers and Solicitors law firm (now Davis & Co.) in Vancouver, BC
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.

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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.