File 606: Royal Commission - 1943-1944

File 606: Royal Commission - 1943-1944

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Title Proper RG36-27 VOLUME 15 FILE 606
Date(s) 1943
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This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file contains a report of the Royal Commission "appointed pursuant to Order-in-Council P.C. 9498, to enquire into the provisions made for the welfare and maintenance of persons of the Japanese race resident in settlements in the province of British Columbia" [the Jackson Commission]. The commission inquired into the conditions within internment camps of which a small part of that inquiry concerned Japanese Canadian liquid assets on file with the Custodian to pay for maintenance. The commission endorsed this process (of using Japanese Canadian assets to pay for "maintenance") and they also invoked “slum” logic with respect to the comparisons made between pre-internment housing to internment housing. Correspondence is also included discussing the findings of the commission.
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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 selectively.

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File 606: Royal Commission - 1943-1944
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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.