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

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

Description

Title Proper RG27 O1 VOLUME 0660 FILE 23-2-17-18-P1
Date(s) 1946
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file contains correspondence, memoranda, and records from 1946 to 1954 relating to the "repatriation" or deportation of Japanese Canadian and Japanese national individuals. It includes: lists of internees being shipped to Japan (who both signed and did not sign "voluntary" declaration forms to repatriate) and lists of those wishing to remain in Canada; extensive correspondence concerning the transfer (and restrictions) of funds, assets and other property of those exiled to Japan (and how these assets are to be handled by the Custodian of Enemy Property); logistical considerations of the forced exile procedure (e.g. baggage allowances, transportation); and petitions from Japanese Canadians against the deportation. This file deals extensively with the Angler prisoner-of-war camp and the internees held there.
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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Title

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