File 50076-40: Postwar treatment of Japanese in Canada and United States. 1946/01/26-1950/05/30.

File 50076-40: Postwar treatment of Japanese in Canada and United States. 1946/01/26-1950/05/30.

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Title Proper RG25 VOLUME 4770 FILE 50076-40
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1946
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From this file, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
Scope and content
This file contains correspondence and documentation concerning a legal challenge, led by Toronto lawyers F.A. Brewin and B.K. Sandwell, of the legality of Orders-in-Council P.C. 7355, 7356, and 7357 - authorizing the deportation of Japanese Canadians. The Supreme Court ultimately decided that none of the Orders-in-Council were ultra vires, or beyond the power of the government, and so dismissed the case. Also included are minutes of the Cabinet Committee on Japanese Problems from 1947 which discuss the control over movement and residence of persons of Japanese origin, the issuance of fishing licenses, "repatriation," and the authority of the Custodian in the forced liquidation of property. Memoranda on claims by Japanese "evacuees" are within as well in preparation for the Bird Commission.
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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 50076-40: Postwar treatment of Japanese in Canada and United States. 1946/01/26-1950/05/30.
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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.