Deportation Claimants

Deportation Claimants

Description

Title Proper Deportation Claimants
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1946–1947
General material designation
From this series, LOI has digitized 9 textual records and other records.
Scope and content
Series consists of files of release forms, exhonerating Campbell, Brazier, Fisher and McMaster Barristers and Solicitors from being sued by Japanese claimants represented by the firm. Accompanying the release forms are forms consisting of biographical information pertaining to the claimants, a series of questions including the reasons why the claimants were renouncing their deportation.
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.

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Title

Deportation Claimants
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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.