File 5-1-128 Sub.: [Staff Officer Intelligence, West Coast] - Japanese activities in BC - General correspondence re suspected Japanese. 1933-1939. [Part 2]

File 5-1-128 Sub.: [Staff Officer Intelligence, West Coast] - Japanese activities in BC - General correspondence re suspected Japanese. 1933-1939. [Part 2]

Description

Title Proper RG24 VOLUME 11917 FILE 5-1-128-2
Date(s) 1938
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file primarily consists of reports on "suspicious" Japanese Canadian activity (e.g., people taking pictures of the coast, possession of machine guns and firearms) and of correspondence tracking either a) the movement of Japanese fishing/shipping vessels across the ocean, or b) Japanese Canadian individuals' (or companies') intended purchase of land on the coast. This file provides a sense of the level of co-operation between the Department of National Defence, the RCMP, the Department of Mines and Natural Resources pertaining to Japanese Canadians just prior to the war.
Name of creator
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 selectively.

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File 5-1-128 Sub.: [Staff Officer Intelligence, West Coast] - Japanese activities in BC - General correspondence re suspected Japanese. 1933-1939. [Part 2]
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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.