Memorandum: Concerning Military Service for Canadians of Oriental Race
Description
Title Proper | RG2 A-5-B REEL C-04874 FILE D ITEM 2 |
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 is a memorandum, dated 19 December 1941, concerning the general policy of
military service for Canadians of "Oriental" race. The policy is called into review
due to its lack of clarity, "the war with Japan in which Chinese and Indians collaborate with Canada," and numerous letters from Japanese people offering service and protests against
the return of Japanese fishermen to their civilian occupations.
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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-04874 |
File | RG2 A-5-B REEL C-04874 FILE D |
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Title
Memorandum: Concerning Military Service for Canadians of Oriental Race
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Terminology
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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
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choices in writing and speaking about this topic today as we confront past injustice.
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