War Cabinet Minutes: 1941-12-29
Description
Title Proper | RG2 A-5-B REEL C-04654 FILE M ITEM 5 |
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized | 1941 |
General material designation |
From this item, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
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Scope and content |
This item includes minutes of the War Committee of the Cabinet, dated 29 December 1941. The UK Prime Minister Churchill was in attendance at this meeting. Churchill inquired about internal security in British Columbia, particularly the possibility of subversive activity of Japanese Canadians and nationals.
The Chief of the General Staff responded with the following: "Members of the special
government committee, as well as military, police and local authorities, were concerned
less at the possibility of subversive activity by Japanese than at the danger of serious
anti-Japanese outbreaks by the white population. There were approximately 24,000 persons
of Japanese race in the whole of Canada, and no more than 7,000 in any one community
on the Pacific. The police felt that they had the situation well in hand."
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Name of creator |
Canada. Privy Council Office
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.
The digitization level of this record is unknown.
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Structure
Repository | Library and Archives Canada |
Fonds | Privy Council Office Fonds |
Series | Cabinet War Committee |
Sub-series | RG2 A-5-B REEL C-04654 |
File | RG2 A-5-B REEL C-04654 FILE M |
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Title
War Cabinet Minutes: 1941-12-29
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