Release of Japanese assets in Canada - Individual cases. 1943/08/14-1956/09/28.

Release of Japanese assets in Canada - Individual cases. 1943/08/14-1956/09/28.

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Title Proper RG25 VOLUME 4157 FILE 614-R-1-40
Date(s) 1943
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file contains correspondence between the Department of External Affairs and the Custodian of Enemy Property regarding assets and property. The vast majority of the correspondence dates from the post-war period, much of it concerning the property of “repatriated” Canadians of Japanese descent (i.e., requests for the "release of assets" and compensation filed through the Japanese government via the Department of External Affairs). These records provide a sense of the complexity of claims from the post-war period. Also included are records from wartime pertaining to the forcible liquidation of Japanese Canadian property (e.g., protest letters and Japanese Canadian claims), correspondence discussing the sale of Japanese Canadian–owned timber forests, discussion of licenses ownership of Japanese Canadians to purchase property, and documents relating to specific cases of dispossession and citizenship.
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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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Release of Japanese assets in Canada - Individual cases. 1943/08/14-1956/09/28.
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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.