Department of Labour Fonds

Description

Title Proper	Department of Labour Fonds
Date(s)	1942-1943
General material designation	This fonds contains 89 textual records.
Scope and content	This fonds comprises three series concerning the Department of Labour, the forced uprooting of Japanese Canadians from the coast of British Columbia, interned Japanese Canadians and work camps, the forced seizure and sale of Japanese Canadians' property, policies and restrictions concerning Japanese Canadians, "voluntary repatriation," or forced exile, to Japan, and the intercepted private correspondence of Japanese Canadians.
Name of creator	Canada. Department of Labour created this archive.
Immediate source of acquisition	The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

Structure

Repository

Library and Archives Canada

Digital Objects (89)

File 1: Reference Manual, 1943

File 5: Principal Wartime Orders in Council Relating to Work of Department of Labour

File 6: Wartime Orders in Council relating to Department of Labour

Correspondence: Couper to H.F. Angus

Correspondence: Dolph Browne to Ian Mackenzie

Correspondence: H.C. Bray to National Defence Headquarters

Correspondence: H.L. Keenleyside to C.F. Edwards

Correspondence: H.L. Keenleyside to Deputy Minister of Labour

Correspondence: H.L. Keenleyside to George Patterson

Correspondence: H.L. Keenleyside to Ian Mackenzie

Correspondence: H.L. Keenleyside to McKinley

Correspondence: Hereford to A. MacNamara

Correspondence: Ian Mackenzie to Bryce M. Stewart

Correspondence: Ian Mackenzie to Humphrey Mitchell

Correspondence: Keenleyside, Wood, Vaughan, Edwards

Correspondence: Lumberworkers to Department of Labour

Correspondence: McVety to A. MacNamara

Correspondence: McVety to A. MacNamara (Second)

Correspondence: Moyes to Ian Mackenzie

Correspondence: R.H. Morrow to H.F. Angus

Correspondence: Senior to Greene

Correspondence: Simpson to W. Mackenzie King

Correspondence: W.A.C. Bennett to Ian Mackenzie (Mackenzie to St. Laurent)

Document: Japanese Registration Form

Document: Meeting to Consider Questions Concerned with Canadian Japanese

Document: Prime Minister's Statement, 1942-01-14

Document: Special Committee on Orientals in British Columbia: Report and Recommendations

Memorandum: Meeting on persons of Japanese origin

Memorandum: The Japanese Problem in British Columbia

File 23-2-2-3: Commissioner's Directive Orders

File 23-2-2-5 Part 1: Orders-in-Council Re: Japanese

File 23-2-2-5 Part 2: Orders-in-Council Re: Japanese

File 23-2-2-7 Part 1: Future Japanese Policy

File 23-2-2-7 Part 2: Future Japanese Policy

File 23-2-2-7 Part 3: Future Japanese Policy

File 23-2-2-7 Part 4: Future Japanese Policy

File 23-2-2-10 Part 2: Parliamentary Inquiries

File 23-2-2-11: Japanese Administration – Re-Organization of B.C. Security Division

RG27 O1 Volume 0642 File 23-2-2-12-1

RG27 O1 Volume 0642 File 23-2-2-12-6-1

RG27 O1 Volume 0643 File 23-2-2-12-9

Compensation for Japanese Evacuees

File 23-1-11-1 Part 1: Japanese Property and Custodian of Enemy Alien Property

File 23-1-11-1 Part 2: Japanese Property and Custodian of Enemy Alien Property

File 23-2-9-1 Part 2: Hastings Park Assembly Center

File 23-2-11-1 Part 3: Japanese Property and Custodian of Enemy Alien Property

File 23-2-13-1 Part 1: Representations and Resolutions - General

File 23-2-13-1 Part 2: Representations and Resolutions - General

RG27 O1 Volume 0658 File 23-2-17-1-2

RG27 O1 Volume 0658 File 23-2-17-1-3

RG27 O1 Volume 0658 File 23-2-17-2-1

File 23-2-17-7, Part 1: Legal Test Cases on Voluntary Repatriation

Legal Test Cases on Voluntary Repatriation

File 23-2-17-13: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Repatriates returning from Eastern Canada & British Columbia. 1945/06 - 1947/01.

File 23-2-17-14: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Correspondence concerning revoking Naturalization of Japanese - Canadian Repatriates. 1954/10 - 1950/02.

File 23-2-17-15: Japanese Division. Segretation and Repatriation. Parliamentary Discussions, and correspondence with members, concerning Repatriation. 1954/10 - 1946/07.

File 23-2-17-16: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Bill 15, Emergency Powers Act, concerning Compulsory Deportation. 1945/08 - 1945/12.

Transfer of Money and Belongings of Repatriates to Japan

File 23-2-17-18, Part 1: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Repatriation of Internees. 1954/12 - 1946/02.

File 23-2-17-19: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Deportation Orders. 1945/12 - 1947/04.

File 23-2-17-20: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Reception of Canadian Repatriates in Japan. 1946 - 1947/06.

File 23-2-17-21, Part 1: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Voluntary Repatriation. Plans. 1946/03-04.

File 23-2-17-21, Part 2: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Voluntary Repatriation. Plans. 1946/05 - 1947.

File 23-2-17-21, Part 3: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Census of Japanese in Canada.

File 23-2-17-23, Part 1: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Department [Deportation] of Japanese by Immigration Branch. 1946.

File 23-2-17-23, Part 2: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Deportation of Japanese by Immigration Branch. 1946/12 - 1947.

File 23-2-17-25: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Occidentals and their Effects going to Japan. 1946/06 - 1947/02.

File 23-2-17-26: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Inquiries concerning return to Japan. 1948/02 - 1949/12.

File 23-2-18: Japanese Division. Inquiries concerning Japanese. Returning to Canada from Japan. 1946/04 - 1950/05.

File 23-2-19: Japanese Division. The Japanese Repatriation and Resettlement Bills. 1946/03-12.

File 23-2-20: Japanese Division. Naturalization of Japanese-Canadians. 1947/02 - 1949/06.

Japanese Division; Restricted Areas; Intercepted Letters re: Property in Restricted Areas & Custodian

RG27 O1 Volume 1527 File 23-2-14-01

RG27 O1 Volume 1527 File 23-2-14-02

RG27 O1 Volume 1527 File 23-2-14-03

RG27 O1 Volume 1527 File 23-2-14-04

RG27 O1 Volume 1527 File 23-2-14-05

RG27 O1 Volume 1527 File 23-2-14-06

RG27 O1 Volume 1528 File 23-2-14-07

RG27 O1 Volume 1528 File 23-2-14-08

RG27 O1 Volume 1528 File 23-2-14-09

RG27 O1 Volume 1528 File 23-2-14-10

RG27 O1 Volume 1528 File 23-2-14-11

RG27 O1 Volume 1528 File 23-2-17-05-2

RG27 O1 Volume 1528 File 23-2-17-06

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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.