File 104(s), Part 1.1: Postwar treatment of Japanese in Canada and United States. 1943/08/20-1950/09/22. Part 1.1.

File 104(s), Part 1.1: Postwar treatment of Japanese in Canada and United States. 1943/08/20-1950/09/22. Part 1.1.

Description

Title Proper RG25 VOLUME 5761 FILE 104S-1P1
Date(s) 1943
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file includes correspondence, memoranda, and reports regarding the post-war policy towards Japanese Canadians and Japanese nationals in Canada. It includes: detailed discussions of future Japanese policy including segregation, repatriation, deportation, and concerns over Japanese Canadians returning to British Columbia; records regarding United States policies (as a framework for establishing Canadian policy), notably H.R. 3012; correspondence regarding travel restrictions; letters protesting the revocation of Japanese Canadian citizenship; debates surrounding policy (as partisan); discussion of the franchise for Japanese Canadians; newspaper clippings critiquing policy (e.g., "Blind Hate in Politics"); and evocative records regarding the establishment of a Loyalty Commission (to determine those to be deported). This file emphasizes the debates surrounding the legalities of the deportation and how Canadian policy was informed by policy in the United States.
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 1.1: Postwar treatment of Japanese in Canada and United States. 1943/08/20-1950/09/22. Part 1.1.
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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.