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

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

Description

Title Proper RG27 O1 VOLUME 0655 FILE 23-1-11-1-P2
Date(s) 1944
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file consists of Volume No. 2 of a Department of Labour file titled "Property and Custodian of Enemy Alien Property," sub-subject "Restricted Areas; Japanese." The file contains documentation and correspondence between the Department of Labour, Japanese Division and other parties regarding the liquidation of properties belonging to Japanese societies and associations; the Custodian's authority to sell these companies; Japanese Canadian property owners refusals to accept Custodian cheques; individual property-owner claims; RCMP reports of damage to Japanese Canadian association and society properties; prospective "repatriates" and their properties; RCMP infraction reports for Japanese Canadians travelling without permits; inquiries about returning to "protected area" and protest letters against forcible liquidation; Japanese Canadian individuals having to forfeit opportunity attend UBC due to forced exile; letters of intermarried individuals requesting their spouse to be allowed to return to coastal area; intermarriage and those permitted in the "protected area"; and protests for removal of Japanese Canadians from Canada.
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 in full.

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