Compensation for Evacuees

Compensation for Evacuees

Description

Title Proper RG27 O1 VOLUME 0653 FILE 23-2-6-9-P2
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1946
General material designation
From this file, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
Scope and content
This file consists of claims, dated from 1946 to 1947, filed by Canadians of Japanese descent to the Department of Labour documenting economic losses caused by resettlement and the forced sale of their property. These claims include completed standardized forms with dollar values. "Evacuees" contain both Japanese Canadians resettled in Canada and those who "voluntary repatriated" to Japan. This file also includes correspondence from members of the Department of Labour alluding to the problems caused by dealing with such claims and a report prepared by Virtue & Russell (Barristers) entitled "Summary of Facts for Secretary of State re: Canadians of Japanese Origin."
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.
This record was digitized selectively.

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Compensation for Evacuees
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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.