Memorandum: Re: Policy with Regard to Japanese in Canada

Memorandum: Re: Policy with Regard to Japanese in Canada

Description

Title Proper RG2 A-5-B REEL C-04876 FILE D ITEM 1
Date(s) 1944
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file contains a memorandum dated 18 April 1944 concerning the affairs of "Japanese in Canada." The memorandum discusses recommendations for policy including the following: segregating "loyal" from "disloyal" Japanese Canadians and nationals (with those "disloyal" being subject to deportation after the war); assistance provided to those who expressed a desire to return to Japan; "re-settlement of loyal Japanese during the war which might achieve permanency" (to achieve dispersal and eliminating "problem arising out of their concentration in British Columbia"); and the examination of individual cases by a Commissioner.
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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Title

Memorandum: Re: Policy with Regard to Japanese in Canada
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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.