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

This file contains a textual record.

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.

Canada. Department of External Affairs created this archive.

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.