File 23-2-17-21, Part 1: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Voluntary Repatriation. Plans. 1946/03-04.

This file contains a textual record.

This file includes extensive correspondence, memoranda, and records from 1946 relating to the "voluntary repatriation," or deportation of Japanese Canadians and Japanese nationals, and the plans taken to carry out this policy. It includes: correspondence concerning the poor treatment of 'repatriates'; logistical considerations of the policies of relocation, repatriation, and the closing of internment sites and projects in British Columbia's interior (i.e. details of transportation, baggage restrictions, accommodations for individuals awaiting deportation); protest letters and petitions arguing against the treatment of those being deported (and memoranda and correspondence on these debated civil rights matters); discussions of conditions of deportation procedure (i.e. measles epidemic) often laid out in RCMP reports; discussions of limitations on travel for awaiting deportees (many held incommunicado); and further correspondence regarding arrangements for deportation (both on an individual and general basis).

Canada. Department of Labour created this archive.

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.