File 4606-C-13-40: Treatment of Assets and Property of Japanese Nationals in Canada

File 4606-C-13-40: Treatment of Assets and Property of Japanese Nationals in Canada

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Title Proper RG25 VOLUME 3121 FILE 4606-C-13-40
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1942
General material designation
From this file, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
Scope and content
This file covers twelve years, from 1942 to 1954, and entails an broad assortment of Department of External Affairs correspondence and memoranda regarding Japanese Canadian property. Documents from 1942 and 1943 pertain primarily to the implementation of liquidation policy (i.e., P.C. 1665) and the mechanisms through which the government disposed of property belonging to "evacuated" and forcibly exiled Japanese Canadians and Japanese nationals. From 1943 to 1950, records continue to discuss the forced sales and raise questions of Japanese Canadian licenses to purchase property. Correspondence on Japanese Canadian property claims (as well as the claims of those deported), the implementation of Bird Commission awards, the release of assets to Japanese Canadians and nationals (discussed in comparison to the release of German assets), and petitions raised by deported Japanese Canadians for compensation are included in the file, spanning the years 1950 to 1954.
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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 4606-C-13-40: Treatment of Assets and Property of Japanese Nationals in Canada
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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.