File 1: Correspondence, Private and Confidential, Part 1, 1942-1946

File 1: Correspondence, Private and Confidential, Part 1, 1942-1946

Description

Title Proper MS00689 SERIES 1 BOX 2 FILE 01
Date(s) 1942
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This file comprises mainly correspondence by and sent to F.G. Shears that was marked private and confidential. Material pertains to the following: consular assets in Canada of the German Government; a Japanese Canadian–owned property controlled by the Spanish Consul; Order-in-Council P.C. 469; Maurice Pope, adviser to Prime Minister Mackenzie King; C.C. Robinson and his misuse of Custodian funds; an editorial in the Toronto Star "calling for an investigation of the Custodian's activities in regards to the assets of the Japanese"; Custodian office business, such as the transfer of staff and files; the findings of the Advisory Committee; the Pitt Meadows Japanese Farmers Association; de Rothschild v. Custodian; personal correspondence between Shears and K.W. Wright; and personal correspondence between Shears and G.W. McPherson, among other topics.
Name of creator
Shears, Frank Gould created this archive during his role as director of the Vancouver branch of the office of the Custodian of Enemy Property.
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 1: Correspondence, Private and Confidential, Part 1, 1942-1946
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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.