Re: Enlistment in Army of Canadian Born Japanese and Loan of Personnel to SEAC and Australian Army

Re: Enlistment in Army of Canadian Born Japanese and Loan of Personnel to SEAC and Australian Army

Description

Title Proper RG2 A-5-B REEL C-04876 FILE D ITEM 3
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1944
General material designation
From this item, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
Scope and content
This item contains a summary dated 19 September 1944 to the War Committee of the Cabinet regarding army enlistment, Canadian-born Japanese Canadians, and the loan of personnel to SEAC and the Australian army. The purpose of said summary is listed as following: "To enlist in the Canadian Army a maximum of 300 Canadian born citizens of Japanese racial origin (Nisei)."
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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Re: Enlistment in Army of Canadian Born Japanese and Loan of Personnel to SEAC and Australian Army
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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.