C-1 Office Files

Description

Title Proper	C-1 Office Files
Date(s)	1941-1969
General material designation	This series contains 28 textual records.
Scope and content	This series comprises three sub-series regarding the Bird Commission, the comparison in policies between Canada and the United States, the beginning of a "special commission" in regards to the treatment of Japanese Canadians during the dispossession and forcible uprooting, property held by the Office of the Custodian and the potential damage to the property, a formal report, and correspondence from the United Nations regarding property ownership rights.
Name of creator	Canada. Office of the Custodian of Enemy Property created this archive.
Immediate source of acquisition	The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

Structure

Repository	Library and Archives Canada
Fonds	Office of the Custodian of Enemy Property Fonds

Related Special Collections

Protest Letters

Digital Objects (28)

File 1 Part 1: Correspondence Relating to Various Staff Members, Vancouver Office

File 1 Part 2: Vancouver Office - List of agents for the Custodian. 1942.

File 1 Part 3: General correspondence and memoranda re staff - Vancouver Office. 1942/12-1946/12.

File 1 Part 4: Correspondence and Treasury Board Minutes

File 1 Part 5: Correspondence of Frank G. Shears re his career as Director, Custodian's Office (Vancouver Office); his involvement in closing the office; compensation and superannuation. 1942/12-1958/12.

File 1 Part 6: Correspondence of K.W. Wright, Chief Counsel to the Custodian re staff matters in the Vancouver Office. 1946/04-1952/03.

File 1 Part 7: Correspondence of A.H. Mathieu, Assistant Deputy Custodian re staff matters in the Vancouver Office. 1946/08-1948/05.

File 1 Part 8: Correspondence and memoranda of A.H. Mathieu re salaries and compensation in the Vancouver Office. 1943/03-1952/05.

File 2 Part 1: Evacuation from United States Defence Areas, Japanese - Consists of clippings, correspondence, press releases re evacuation of Japanese from the United States West Coast, Civilian Exclusion Orders, and War Relocation Authority documents (United States); some correspondence with the Canadian Custodian. 1942/03-1942/09.

File 2 Part 2: Cabinet Committee on Japanese matters - Memoranda and Minutes. 1942/01-1948/01.

File 2 Part 3: Standing Committee on Orientals in British Columbia - Correspondence, minutes of a meeting to consider questions re Japanese Canadians and Japanese nationals in British Columbia. 1942/01-1942/02.

File 2 Part 4: Memoranda prepared in 1969 by the Assistant Deputy Custodian and Counsel summarizing government actions re: claims of Japanese Canadians. 1969/01.

File 2 Part 5: Correspondence and memoranda from the Office of the Chief Counsel to the Custodian, Mr. K.W. Wright, re the deportation, repatriation of Japanese assets, and property of Japanese Canadians. 1946/12-1948/04.

File 3: General Correspondence and Accounts - Vancouver Office. 1942/05-1947/07.

File 4: Japanese Claims Commission, P.C. 3027, 20 June 1950. 1950/06.

File 6: Enemy Section, Vancouver Office - Correspondence and memoranda re No. 1 Administration Account, Vancouver - Includes a report on the Accounting system for the Custodian's Vancouver Office prepared by P.S. Ross and Sons. 1942-1951/12.

File 7: Correspondence re transfer to Ottawa from Vancouver, Japanese Evacuation Section of records, cash accounts and Suspense Account. 1949/07-1957/08.

File 8: Correspondence re transfer to Ottawa of Vancouver Enemy Section cash accounts, securities, files and ledgers. 1951/06-1951/08.

File 9: Vancouver Office - Sample of Form Letters. 1942-1949.

File 10: Vancouver Office - General Correspondence, memoranda and clippings. 1941/04-1947/10.

File 11: Vancouver Office - Enemy Accounts. 1946/08.

File 12: Japanese Evacuation - Correspondence and memoranda. 1942/03-1942/12.

File 13: Correspondence and memoranda re the legal liability of the Custodian. 1942/08-1942/10.

File 14: Legal Opinions. 1942/08-1942/10.

File 15: P.S. Ross and Sons, Chartered Accountants - Reports on the Japanese Evacuation Section of the Custodian's Vancouver Office. 1943/10-1947/06.

File 16: Vancouver Office - Reports, Correspondence, memoranda re administration and operations of the Vancouver Office. 1941/12-1950/01.

Report to the Undersecretary of State Regarding the Japanese Evacuation Section

Bundle 356 Part 12: Far Eastern Commission, Washington, DC - Reparation from Japan - Japanese Repatriation. 1945-1948.

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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.