Memorandum: Regarding Measures to be Taken in the Event of War with Japan.

Memorandum: Regarding Measures to be Taken in the Event of War with Japan.

Description

Title Proper RG2 A-5-B REEL C-04654 FILE D ITEM 2
Date(s) 1941
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This item is a memorandum, dated 07 August 1941, concerning measures to be taken by the Canadian government in the event of war with Japan. It refers to (but does not include) a report produced by the Special Interdepartmental Committee (with three appendices: Internment, Shipping and Economic Questions, and Trading with the Enemy). This memorandum briefly mentions "fundamental questions of policy" that needed to be decided by government, one of them concerning the extending of the "compulsory" "voluntary" registration of Japanese Canadians and nationals in British Columbia to the rest of Canada.
Name of creator
Canada. Privy Council Office 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.
The digitization level of this record is unknown.

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Memorandum: Regarding Measures to be Taken in the Event of War with Japan.
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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.