File 9-02: Notes on 1943 trip and questionnaire

File 9-02: Notes on 1943 trip and questionnaire

Description

Title Proper ARC-1500 SERIES 04 BOX 9 FILE 9-02
Date(s) 1943
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file contains Kosaburo Shimizu's notes from his trip in 1943 to Alberta "settlements." These notes speak to conditions endured by Japanese Canadians, farming, education, and re-settlement or "relocation" to eastern Canada. Of particular note is a handwritten list titled "How are our friends doing in the east?," which highlights inner attitudes of resentment, feelings of uncertainty, despair, hopelessness, and assimilation.
Name of creator
Shimizu, Kosaburo created this archive as a minister of the United Church. This archive was "originally accessioned as part of the Japanese Canadian research collection. The Kosaburo Shiumizu material was then removed and processed separately as the Kosaburo Shimizu fonds."
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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File 9-02: Notes on 1943 trip and questionnaire
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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.