File 4: Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians in the Supreme Court of Canada. 1946.

File 4: Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians in the Supreme Court of Canada. 1946.

Description

Title Proper MG32-C26 Volume 3 File 04
Date(s) 1945
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file includes records relating to the Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians in the Supreme Court of Canada from 1946. It includes the following: the case for the Appellant CCJC in the Matter of a Reference as to the validity of Orders-in-Council of the 15th day of September, 1945 (P.C. 7355, 7356, 7357) in relation to persons of the Japanese race; Factum of the CCJC for same case dated 15 December 1945; the order for the Reference case dated 06 January 1946; a copy of P.C. 45; a copy of Statutory Orders and Regulations, 1945 (includes deportation orders); correspondence with the Ambassador in Washington regarding Japanese deportees and "repatriates"; correspondence on the Supreme Court of Canada's "answer" to the question of validity of Orders-in-Council (dated February 1946); and the judgement and discussions of the Supreme Court decision (extensive discussions of citizenship and naturalization, questions of loyalty, deportation).
Name of creator
Brewin, Andrew, 1907-1983 , politician, created this archive and gave it to the LAC in 1976 and 1980.
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 4: Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians in the Supreme Court of Canada. 1946.
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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.