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.