File 3464-Q-40: British Columbia Security Commission – Establishment Of.

File 3464-Q-40: British Columbia Security Commission – Establishment Of.

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Title Proper RG25 VOLUME 3005 FILE 3464-Q-40
Date(s) 1942
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This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file contains correspondence and draft Orders-in-Council (e.g. P.C. 1665, 1666) relating to the Department of External Affairs’s involvement in the establishment of the British Columbia Security Commission. Records also discuss the Advisory Committee, the custody of Japanese property, expenses and offences. Also included is a memorandum for the Undersecretary of External Affairs by John Erskine Read, at the time the legal adviser for External Affairs, strongly criticizing the forced liquidation policy soon adopted by the government.
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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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File 3464-Q-40: British Columbia Security Commission – Establishment Of.
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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.