File 5475-W-4-40 Part1 : “Economic and Social Council, Commission on Human Rights, Complaints RE: Treatment of Japanese in Canada.”

File 5475-W-4-40 Part1 : “Economic and Social Council, Commission on Human Rights, Complaints RE: Treatment of Japanese in Canada.”

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Title Proper RG25 VOLUME 3690 FILE 5475-W-4-40-1
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1948
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From this file, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
Scope and content
This file contains United Nations documents and correspondence (specifically of the Economic and Social Council) concerning the petitions of Japanese Canadians against the federal government. Other correspondence contains government officials debating internally whether to give a public response, drafting such a response, and noting that the racist legislation protested against by Japanese Canadians expires on 01 April 1949 (the claims were made in March 1949).
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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 5475-W-4-40 Part1 : “Economic and Social Council, Commission on Human Rights, Complaints RE: Treatment of Japanese 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.