H.L. Keenleyside to W. L. Mackenzie King [Re: Tenth Recommendation of the Special Committee on Orientals]

H.L. Keenleyside to W. L. Mackenzie King [Re: Tenth Recommendation of the Special Committee on Orientals]

Description

Title Proper RG2 A-5-B REEL C-11789 FILE D ITEM 2
Date(s) 1940
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This item contains a letter dated 02 December 1940 from Keenleyside to Mackenzie King, in which Keenleyside recommends certain individuals to be appointed to the "small standing Committee ... set up in British Columbia to supervise .. and for the purpose of keeping the Government constantly informed as to the oriental situation in that Province." Keenleyside suggests that Colonel Sparling, Assistant Commissioner Mead, Professor H.F. Angus (advocate of fair treatment for Orientals in BC), Lieutenant-Colonel McGregor McIntosh ("one of the leaders of the anti-Oriental movement (but is fundamentally a decent and honest man)"), and Fred J. Hume be appointed.
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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H.L. Keenleyside to W. L. Mackenzie King [Re: Tenth Recommendation of the Special Committee on Orientals]
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