RG27 B1 REEL T-10137

From this sub-series, LOI has digitized 27 textual records or images.

This sub-series comprises 27 items consisting of correspondence, memoranda, and other documents pertaining to the following: a conference about the "problem" of Japanese Canadians in BC; public opinions on security and the "removal" of Japanese Canadians from the coast; road camp locations; loss of employment for Japanese Canadians; government policy for fishing boats; a voluntary Civilian Corps; compulsory "evacuation" of Japanese Canadians; employing Japanese Canadians in the food canning industry; monthly relief rates for Japanese Canadian families; a Committee of Cabinet; appointing additional Custodians of Enemy Property; the dischargement of Japanese Canadian workers by Canadian National Railways; Japanese Canadian members of the International Brotherhood Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers of the United States, Canada and Newfoundland union in Ocean Falls, BC; forcing interned Japanese Canadians to be farm labourers and road camp workers; wartime racial hatred towards Japanese Canadians; jobs for Japanese Canadians at the University of British Columbia; fruit export requiring Japanese Canadian labourers; the movement of Japanese Canadians into the Okanagan Valley; Japanese Canadian citizenship cards; lists of figures concerning the number of registered Japanese Canadians in Canada; the Government's position on Japanese Canadians in British Columbia and the policy and program to be adopted; the Special Committee on Orientals in British Columbia; differentiating "enemy aliens of other Nationalities"; among other things.

Canada. Department of Labour created this archive.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.