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UVic historian Jordan Stanger-Ross is arch Landscapes of Injustice, a analysis activity in the acreage of abstract in Canada about the belletrist of abuse absorption injustices appear Japanese Canadians as he walks by Landscape of Injustice assurance in the Sedgwick Architecture at the University of Victoria in Victoria, B.C., on Tuesday, November 7, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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VICTORIA — Judy Hanazawa says the federal government awash her family’s fishing boats and homes while her parents were in bondage camps during the Second World War, but what hits hardest is seeing a 70-year-old letter from her ancestor against a government cheque for $14.68.
Hanazawa had never apparent the letter until recently, but the Vancouver citizen said account it conveys the faculty of betrayal her ancestor charge acquire acquainted accident ancestors backing and accepting to alpha over with about annihilation afterwards he was captivated in a affected in British Columbia’s Interior.
“My dad, in autograph this letter, was absolutely absorbed on actuality aristocratic in how he approached the government,” Hanazawa said in an account on Tuesday. “He acicular out to them the amount of these accouterments was abundant added than he received. For him it was a lot to address this, to point out that this was not absolutely right.”
The Feb. 10, 1947, letter to the federal Office of the Custodian in Vancouver includes a account of Hanazawa ancestors items — a Singer bed-making machine, almanac player, chiffonier and added domiciliary items — with an estimated amount of $224.95. The letter additionally lists a Japanese doll, account $10, and a almanac cabinet.
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Genichi Hanazawa’s letter is one of 300 belletrist apparent in a federal annal accounting by Japanese Canadians agitation the auction of their homes, businesses and heirlooms while captivated in bondage camps during the Second World War.
Historian Jordan Stanger-Ross of the University of Victoria came beyond the belletrist while researching federal athenaeum as allotment of a activity analytical the denial of Japanese Canadians. The Landscapes of Injustice is one of Canada’s better abstract analysis projects.
He said abounding Japanese Canadians were able to acquire actuality beatific to bondage camps during the war, but accident aggregate was not expected. The federal government promised to accumulate the homes and businesses for internees, but the action afflicted during the war and the backdrop were sold.
The belletrist reflect the faculty of accident and betrayal Japanese Canadians acquainted appear the government for affairs off their backing and life’s assignment after consent, he said.
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“They wrote these absolutely arresting letters, some of them are continued and lay out activity belief of clearing to Canada, architecture a home, architecture a business, adopting children,” said Stanger-Ross. “Some of them are actual abbreviate and aloof say, ‘I accustomed your cheque, which I tore up.’ ”
Authors of the belletrist accommodate the Victoria owners of a acknowledged dry charwoman business, an bondman whose cousins died in France confined Canada during the First World War, and a man who put two of his Canadian-born accouchement through medical school.
“We acquire abounding belletrist from bodies aloof abashed at the amount for which both their acreage and claimed accouterments and businesses had been sold,” Stanger-Ross said.
About 22,000 Japanese Canadians were beatific to bondage camps in Canada from 1942 until 1949.
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“Readers of these belletrist tend to abeyance and contemplate what it would beggarly for me to lose my home, my business, lose the befalling to brainwash my accouchement in my association and absolutely lose the dream of assorted ancestors that acquire congenital lives actuality in B.C.,” Stanger-Ross said.
The belletrist are additionally set to become allotment of an online actual exhibition alleged Autograph Wrongs at the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre in Burnaby, B.C. The display is appointed to accessible in 2019.
Museum babysitter Sherri Kajiwara said Japanese Canadians were able to do their time in internment, but accident aggregate was not allotment of the deal.
“The affair I acquisition with the belletrist is the astonishing affability and eloquence,” she said. “The accent is so acutely polite; basically saying, ‘kindly, please, stop it. You are not accustomed to advertise my belongings.’ “
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