Evacuation

Evacuation

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Title Proper F0 GR0268 BOX 12 FILE 01
Date(s) 1942
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In this memo to Premier John Hart, W.C. Mainwaring reports on his meeting with Major-General Alexander and Inspector S.F.M. Moodie concerning the "evacuation" of Vancouver Island. Notably, Mainwaring suggests that in the case of an emergency, the “five or six hundred” fishing vessels owned by Japanese Canadians “lying anchored and idle” could be used to move thousands of people off the island.
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The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
This record was digitized selectively.

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Evacuation
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