File J-25-1: Japanese Canadians (1950-51)

File J-25-1: Japanese Canadians (1950-51)

Description

Title Proper RG2 B-2 VOLUME 167 FILE J-25-1-1950
Date(s) 1950
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file contains minutes, memoranda, and correspondence of the Cabinet Committee on Japanese Problems from 1950 to 1951. Included are documents relating to financial needs for the Japanese welfare and administration in BC, the implementation of claims awards (the Bird report) following the Bird Commission and the Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians's and JCCA's protests (on the lack of interest payment on awards: "entirely inconsistent with the universal practice in compensation cases"). Also notable is a protest memorandum regarding the Orders-in-Council PC 1945-7355, 1945-7356 and 1945-7357 for the deportation of Canadians of Japanese racial origin prepared by the CCJC.
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.
This record was digitized in full.

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Title

File J-25-1: Japanese Canadians (1950-51)
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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.