Memorandum: Re: Treatment in Canada of enemy aliens

Description

Title Proper	RG2 A-5-B REEL C-04875 FILE D ITEM 4
Date(s)	1943
General material designation	This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content	This item comprises a memorandum, dated 24 November 1942, concerning the treatment of enemy aliens in Canada. It calls for the revocation of Regulation 268[?], under the circumstances that "the past three years of war have shown that the vast majority of British subjects of former German and Italian nationality are wholeheartedly behind the national war effort." This revocation is suggested "in order to remove loyal British subjects of former enemy nationality from the liabilities imposed upon enemy aliens." Separately discussed are Japanese Canadians from German Canadians and Italian Canadians.
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.

Structure

Repository	Library and Archives Canada
Fonds	Privy Council Office Fonds
Series	Cabinet War Committee
Sub-series	RG2 A-5-B REEL C-04875
File	RG2 A-5-B REEL C-04875 FILE D

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Memorandum: Re: Treatment in Canada of enemy aliens

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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.