File V-8-10 Part 1: Japanese and their Farm Properties

File V-8-10 Part 1: Japanese and their Farm Properties

Description

Title Proper RG38 VOLUME 403 FILE V-8-10-1
Date(s) 1940
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file includes communications between the Soldier Statement Board and key outside figures, including T.A. Crerar, Ian Mackenzie, and others. A significant share of this file comprises communications written to Gordon Murchison, the Director of the Soldier Settlement Board, by District Superintendent Ivan T. Barnet, who was, in effect second in command and the most important figure on the ground in British Columbia for the SSB. This file also contains correspondence from the fall of 1942, tabulations from the same period of farm properties (almost one-third of these properties are in Maple Ridge); historical surveys of production; detailed discussion of individual cases, including Japanese Canadian efforts to lease/sell land before their "departure" (i.e., forced uprooting) and federal interference with these efforts; and indication of relations between the Soldier Statement Board and the Custodian of Enemy Property.
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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 in full.

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File V-8-10 Part 1: Japanese and their Farm Properties
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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.