File 104(s), Part 1.2: Postwar treatment of Japanese in Canada and United States. 1943/08/20-1950/09/22. Part 1.2.

File 104(s), Part 1.2: Postwar treatment of Japanese in Canada and United States. 1943/08/20-1950/09/22. Part 1.2.

Description

Title Proper RG25 VOLUME 5761 FILE 104S-1-2
Date(s) 1943
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file contains significant correspondence, memoranda, and reports concerning the establishment and recommendation for a Loyalty Commission to determine those Japanese Canadians and Japanese nationals to be deported. Records discuss other post-war policies as well including "re-settlement," segregation, and forced dispersal. The file includes: draft commendations to council regarding the commission; extensive discussion of the determination of 'loyalty'; news clippings (e.g., on “Racialism” of Ian Mackenzie, the CCF's and United Church's position on the deportation); correspondence on the appointment of Commissioners for the Loyalty Commission; discussion on the treatment of families and minors in the context of the deportation; considerations of property and the role of the Custodian; and references to United States policy towards the forced exile of Japanese American individuals.
Name of creator
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 104(s), Part 1.2: Postwar treatment of Japanese in Canada and United States. 1943/08/20-1950/09/22. Part 1.2.
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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.