File 3123-40: Establishment of a committee to coordinate policy re the treatment of Canadian nationals in enemy territory and enemy aliens in Canada. 1941/01/05-1943/06/04.

File 3123-40: Establishment of a committee to coordinate policy re the treatment of Canadian nationals in enemy territory and enemy aliens in Canada. 1941/01/05-1943/06/04.

Description

Title Proper RG25 VOLUME 2951 FILE 3123-40
Date(s) 1941
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file includes reports and memoranda pertaining to the establishment of the Interdepartmental Advisory Committee on the Protection of Canadian Interests in Enemy Territory and the Treatment of Enemy Interests in Canada. It includes the following: a memorandum on the treatment of Japanese persons evacuated from the 'Defence area' (regarding the extension of International Red Cross work to cover evacuated Japanese persons); a report on the "repatriation" of Canadians from Japan (discussion of a reciprocal exchange of Japanese persons in Canada); a memorandum on the Position of Persons who have Become Naturalized British Subjects since the First Day of September 1922; and correspondence leading up to the establishment of the committee (developed in response to need for policy with regard to prisoners of war and treatment of enemy interests).
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 3123-40: Establishment of a committee to coordinate policy re the treatment of Canadian nationals in enemy territory and enemy aliens in Canada. 1941/01/05-1943/06/04.
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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.