File 4606-C-13-40: Treatment of Assets and Property of Japanese Nationals in Canada. 1955/01/04-1962/10/03.

File 4606-C-13-40: Treatment of Assets and Property of Japanese Nationals in Canada. 1955/01/04-1962/10/03.

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Title Proper RG25 VOLUME 6871 FILE 4606-C-13-40
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1955
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From this file, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
Scope and content
This file contains extensive post-war correspondence surrounding the Custodian’s responsibilities to exiled Japanese Canadians, much of which is from the Japanese Government concerning Japanese external assets vested in the Canadian Custodian of Enemy Property and the release of assets to repatriates. This file includes copies of P.C. 7355, the Order-in-Council regarding the deportation of Japanese nationals from Canada, and P.C. 1953-434 which concerns the liquidation of "enemy" property. It also contains minutes of a Japanese House of Councillors' Foreign Affairs Committee meeting (translated) from March 19, 1959 and a report required by the Enemy Property Custodian Committee in Canada through the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo (translated). Several questions of citizenship are raised in this correspondence.
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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 selectively.

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File 4606-C-13-40: Treatment of Assets and Property of Japanese Nationals in Canada. 1955/01/04-1962/10/03.
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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.