Repatriation of Japanese in Canada. 1945-1954.
Description
Title Proper | RG18 VOLUME 3567 FILE C315-36-3-4 |
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized | 1945 |
General material designation |
From this file, LOI has digitized a textual records or images.
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Scope and content |
This file consists of assorted correspondence, memoranda, and records pertaining to
the "repatriation" (or deportation) of Japanese nationals and Japanese Canadians from
1945 to 1954. It includes and pertains to the following: records regarding the immunization
and vaccination of "repatriates"; discussions of the logistics of the "repatriation"
procedure (e.g., transportation of individuals); correspondence regarding United States deportation procedure; news clippings critiquing the deportation policy (questions
of the legality of the procedure); records documenting the RCMP canvassing in internment camps for ‘voluntary repatriates’; anti-Japanese media;
copies of the deportation orders (P.C. 7355, 7356, 7357); reports that the deportation
numbers were being ‘cut in half' and that there were ‘irregularities’ in how the RCMP obtained declaration forms; and petitions against the deportation (arguing that many
individuals signed under coercion). This file highlights the "co-operation between
the Department of Labour and the RCMP in the administration of the provisions of the [deportation] Order."
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Name of creator |
Canada. Royal Canadian Mounted Police
created this archive.
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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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Structure
Repository | Library and Archives Canada |
Fonds | Royal Canadian Mounted Police Fonds |
Series | RG18 VOLUME 3567 |
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Title
Repatriation of Japanese in Canada. 1945-1954.
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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.