File 5: Intercepted phone calls-highly confidential. Repatriation of Japanese - confidential, 1941-1945

File 5: Intercepted phone calls-highly confidential. Repatriation of Japanese - confidential, 1941-1945

Description

Title Proper MS00689 SERIES 4 BOX 11 FILE 05
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1941
General material designation
From this file, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
Scope and content
This file consists predominantly of transcriptions of intercepted mail and phone calls, as well as content of censored correspondence, conducted by the Department of National War Services. Targets include Canadians of Japanese descent as well as traders in properties, such as J.H. Bloedel of Bloedel, Stewart & Welch Ltd. The file also includes a memorandum pertaining to the "repatriation" of Canadians of Japanese descent on the S.S. Gripsholm.
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 5: Intercepted phone calls-highly confidential. Repatriation of Japanese - confidential, 1941-1945
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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.