File 23-2-17-23, Part 2: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Deportation of Japanese by Immigration Branch. 1946/12 - 1947.
Description
Title Proper | RG27 O1 VOLUME 0661 FILE 23-2-17-23-P2 |
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized | 1946 |
General material designation |
From this file, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
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Scope and content |
This file includes correspondence, memoranda, and records pertaining to the deportation
of Japanese Canadians and Japanese nationals by the Department of Mines and Resources, Immigration Branch in 1946. It includes: applications for repatriation (e.g. of prominent Buddhist priests)
as well as several requests for cancellations of applications for repatriation; discussions
of “potentially disastrous” situation resulting from the deportation of Japanese Canadian
farmers in Alberta; correspondence concerning questions of "loyalty"; and discussions
about the arrangements made for shipping deportees. Notable are petitions requesting
the stay of Buddhist priests and protest letters from numerous Buddhist associations.
Records discuss the deportation of several specific individuals (e.g. logistics of
deportation, identification).
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Name of creator |
Canada. Department of Labour
created this archive.
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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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Structure
Repository | Library and Archives Canada |
Fonds | Department of Labour Fonds |
Series | RG27 O1 |
Sub-series | RG27 O1 VOLUME 0661 |
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Title
File 23-2-17-23, Part 2: Japanese Division. Segregation and Repatriation. Deportation
of Japanese by Immigration Branch. 1946/12 - 1947.
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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.