File 9309, Part 18: Japanese Immigration. 1941-1947.

File 9309, Part 18: Japanese Immigration. 1941-1947.

Description

Title Proper RG76 VOLUME 086 FILE 9309-18
Date(s) 1941
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file contains records pertaining to "Japanese Immigration" from 1941 to 1947. It includes records relating to the following: the Standing Committee on Orientals in British Columbia; strong opposition to the immigration of Japanese nationals in Canada in the early 1940s; the deportation of persons of Japanese origin after the war (e.g., letters for and against this position); concerns over property ownership by Japanese Canadians and property dispossession; the "movement through Canada of United States citizens of the Japanese race" in 1945; a Loyalty Commission inquiry and other questions of citizenship; and the possible return to Canada from Japan of exiled individuals.
Name of creator
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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Title

File 9309, Part 18: Japanese Immigration. 1941-1947.
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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.