Japanese Canadian Redress and History Records

From this series, LOI has digitized 30 textual records or images.

This series comprises six sub-series containing mostly copies of archival records from Library and Archives Canada digitized by Roy Miki relating to the treatment of Japanese Canadians, including records from RG36-27, Department of Labour, Japanese Division; RG18, RCMP fonds; MG28-V-7, JCCA papers; and RG27, Department of Labour. Also included are Miki's research notes on the material. Other contained material pertains to the following: Kunio Hidaka and the Japanese Canadian Committee for Democracy, the Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians, the Citizenship Defence Committee, and the Toronto Claimants Committee; Sherwood Lett's "Legal Disabilities of the Japanese (Including the Second Generation) in British Columbia"; Etsuji Morii; JCCA National Executive Board meetings; the "repatriation" policy and the disposition of Japanese Canadian–owned property; the Custodian of Enemy Property; the Cabinet Committee on Japanese Questions; RCMP reports relating to dispossession; property disposal; Indian Residential Schools; and internment camps, camp conditions, and travel restrictions; the National Association of Japanese Canadians; and records and notes from Ann Sunahara.

Miki, Roy created this archive from his time as an academic and leader member of the Japanese-Canadian Redress movement.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.