Memorandum: Meeting on persons of Japanese origin

Memorandum: Meeting on persons of Japanese origin

Description

Title Proper RG27 B1 REEL T-10137 ITEM 26
Date(s) 1942
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This item consists of two documents detailing meetings at the Department of Labour in January 1942 concerning the following: government policy on Japanese Canadians, specifically Japanese nationals; the "prohibited" area in British Columbia; the Unemployment Insurance Commission; "enemy aliens of other Nationalities" being barred from the "prohibited" area and being differentiated between; the organization of a Civilian Labour Corps; and the setting of a deadline by which Japanese nationals would be required to move from the "protected" area.
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.
The digitization level of this record is unknown.

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Title

Memorandum: Meeting on persons of Japanese origin
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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.