File 23-2-17-19: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Deportation Orders. 1945/12 - 1947/04.

File 23-2-17-19: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Deportation Orders. 1945/12 - 1947/04.

Description

Title Proper RG27 O1 VOLUME 0660 FILE 23-2-17-19
Date(s) 1945
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file includes correspondence, memoranda, and records from 1945 to 1947 relating to the deportation policy directed towards Japanese Canadians and Japanese nationals. It includes: lists of Japanese nationals under the deportation order; details of Orders-in-Council P.C. 7355 (and 7356, 7357); information on the United States policy and procedure for the renunciation of citizenship by persons of "enemy origin" and for the forced exile of "enemy aliens" (and for their relocation program); correspondence regarding arrangements made between the United States and Canada on the deportation; discussion of a tentative "Loyalty Tribunal" or commission to identify disloyal persons to be deported; correspondence regarding the segregation (forced dispersal policy) in conjunction with the deportation; Cabinet memoranda on policy decisions and procedure; discussions among officials regarding the separation of families, baggage limits, and property transfers; drafts of the deportation orders (and correspondence relating to drafts); as well as protest letters against the forced "repatriation".
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 23-2-17-19: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Deportation Orders. 1945/12 - 1947/04.
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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.