This sub-series comprises one file regarding the exchange of Japanese and Canadian nationals between Canada and Japan. There is also reference to the similar procedures with regards to the United States and Britain.

This sub-series contains one file regarding F.P. Varcoe's appointment as Deputy Minister of Justice.

This sub-series contains one file including correspondence discussing the war-time treatment of Japanese Canadians and the Canadian government's related inhumane actions regarding forced uprooting, dispossession, and compulsory labour.

This sub-series comprises one file pertaining to provincial laws regarding to racial discrimination.

This sub-series comprises one file regarding the American Association for China Famine and Flood Relief and British Columbia's forests.

This sub-series contains one file regarding the work of Japanese Canadian labourers in Alberta.

This sub-series contains two files regarding the forcible uprooting of Japanese Canadians from the coast of British Columbia.

This sub-series contains one files discussing the post-war future for Japanese Canadians in Canada.

This sub-series contains one file regarding government staffing for September and August 1946.

This sub-series contains one file regarding the seizure of property from Ukrainian Canadians.

This sub-series comprises one file discussing the retirement of government official James Ilsley.

This sub-series comprises one file containing the meeting minutes of the Cabinet Committee on Japanese Problems, petitions regarding deportation, and an itemized list of Hansard debates.

This sub-series comprises two files discussing the policies and public opinion concerning Japanese Canadians in Canada.

This file contains detailed correspondence and reports relating to the dispossession of Japanese Canadian fishing vessels, the Japanese Fishing Vessels Disposal Committee, and representations and resolutions regarding Japanese Canadian participation in the fishing industry. Also contains a letter from Minister of Fisheries Joseph-Enoil Michaud to Ian Mackenzie regarding racial discrimination with regards to quotas on boat puller licenses.

This file primarily contains weekly reports of the Japanese Fishing Vessels Disposal Committee, forwarded to Ian Mackenzie. Also contains some correspondence regarding to the fate of the seized fishing vessels, including appeals from the Canadian Legion to use the seized equipment for rehabilitation purposes.

This file contains weekly reports of the Japanese Fishing Vessels Disposal Committee, the final report of the JFVDC, and correspondence thanking Ian Mackenzie for his role in securing forcible liquidated property for sale to the Canadian Legion.

This file contains a report of the Post-War Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Committee (of New Westminster) and related correspondence. Only the report itself mentions Japanese Canadians. The report implores that farms formerly "operated" by Japanese Canadians be used for soldier settlement as well as states that Japanese Canadians should not be allowed to "re-establish" themselves in coastal BC.

This file contains correspondence and other documents concerning the following: military protection and anxieties about Japanese Canadians being spread out across Canada; Japanese Canadian women and children being forcibly relocated to Lumberton; restrictions on the possession of guns, radios, and cameras for Japanese Canadians; Colonel Goodwin Gibson and Hastings Park; the atrocious treatment of Canadian POWs and civilians in Hong Kong by Japan; "Japanese evacuation" in California and also restrictions on Japanese Americans elsewhere in the United States; the British Columbia Security Commission's Advisory Board; mass meetings in the Okanagan Valley region concerning "urban and agricultural interests" regarding Japanese Canadians being forcibly relocated to the region; the BCSC's acquirement of buildings at Hastings Park to use to detain Japanese Canadians; and the Canadian National Railways increasing capacity with more boarding cars to facilitate the forcible uprooting of Japanese Canadians; Orders-in-Council summaries; among other topics.

This file contains much correspondence regarding the forcible uprooting of Japanese Canadian and protests, from non–Japanese Canadians, against such relocation to various areas of British Columbia (e.g., Goldbridge; Minto).

This file contains government correspondence and reports pertaining to the following topics: "physically fit adult [Japanese Canadian] males" in Vancouver being forcibly relocated to work camps; remaining Japanese Canadian individuals on the coast still to be "evacuated"; summaries of the "Japanese evacuation situation"; the treatment of people of Japanese descent in the United States; and expenditures and status of work camps; forcible uprooting of Japanese Canadians to Ontario farms; the Department of Mines and Resources "obtaining" specific "Indian Residential Schools"; Japanese Canadians with tuberculosis; cold weather in road camps possibly necessitating Japanese Canadian men in these camps being reunited with their families during the winter months; issues and unrest in the road camps between Jasper and Blue River as reported by Kinzie Tanaka, former Vice President of the Japanese Canadian Citizens League; a "petition against Japanese being sent to Chase[, BC]" (with a list of signees); and strong objections to the presence of male Japanese Canadian labourers by the Kamloops Board of Trade despite the desire to use their labour to open up roads in the area; among other topics.

This file contains many documents including the following: reports pertaining to the forcible relocation of Japanese Americans; government reports and statements of expenditures by the Department of Labour and Department of Mines and Resources for the operation and maintenance of work camps (e.g., Yellowhead-Blue River, Hope-Princeton, Revelstoke-Sicamous); summaries of general expenditures by the British Columbia Security Commission; correspondence and reports concerning Order-in-Council P.C. 9498 ("to investigate the welfare of Japanese in the Interior Settlements of British Columbia"); excerpts from a letter by the Prime Minister about the "mollycoddling and privileges extended to evacuated Japanese"; Order-in-Council P.C. 946; a memorandum and report regarding recommendations for the transfer of powers of the BCSC to the Minister of Labour; a list of BCSC staff members in Vancouver as of early 1943; correspondence regarding included minutes of the Committee on Japanese Problems; memoranda pertaining to whether seized real estate in Vancouver should be "administered or liquidated"; correspondence about seized fishing nets; correspondence regarding the re-organization and dissolution of the BCSC; correspondence regarding a request by the War Relocation Authority for information about the uprooting of Japanese Canadians from the coast of British Columbia, the treatment of these people, and problems experienced by the government in this process of forcible uprooting; a photograph of housing at a camp, next to an area cleared of trees, at the base of a mountain in the Interior of BC; a report titled "JAPANESE MOVEMENT - PACIFIC COAST," dated 30 September 1942; a report on conditions in Slocan, BC; letters concerning the education of Japanese Canadian children; correspondence about the denial of permits granting furloughs to Japanese Canadians; and a letter pertaining to the uprooting of Japanese Canadian families to farms in provinces other than BC.

This file contains government correspondence about the use of Japanese Canadian labourers for work camps and the movement of Japanese Canadians to various areas of Canada. Also contains objections to the denial of Canadian citizenship rights and claims, forced property sales, forced uprooting, and cancelled veterans grants and on behalf of Japanese Canadian veterans.

This file contains letters regarding the authorized deportation of Japanese Canadians to Japan. It includes a lengthy letter, dated 06 May 1946, to Ian A. Mackenzie from the Attorney-General of British Columbia.

This file contains memoranda, reports, and correspondence. Included material pertains to RCMP reports on the "conditions" of Japanese Canadians in southern Alberta and to protests of Japanese Canadian World War I veterans.

This file contains a booklet publication, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. It includes the following: a Howard Norman and Consultative Council publication titled "What About the Japanese Canadians?"; correspondence involving Ian Mackenzie regarding the desire to censor The New Canadian newspaper publication; and newspaper clippings from articles discussing Mackenzie's statements on Japanese Canadians and their forcible removal from the coast of British Columbia.

This file contains letters and government correspondence regarding Canadian citizenship and naturalization rights.

This file contains letters and government correspondence regarding property forcibly seized from Japanese Canadians and the formation and members of an advisory committee.

This file contains correspondence regarding the removal of Japanese Canadians from the coast of British Columbia.

This file contains letters and correspondence criticizing the speed at which the government had forcibly uprooted and relocated Japanese Canadians from the coast of British Columbia.

This file contains letters from the public to the government concerning the removal of Japanese Canadians from the coast of British Columbia and, in some cases, the deportation of these individuals to Japan.

This file contains government correspondence discussing the use of Japanese Canadian labour in the timber industry.

This file contains a large amount of correspondence regarding the forcible liquidation of Japanese Canadian property, both urban and rural.

This file contains various government correspondence regarding the transfer of Japanese Canadian–owned property to the hands of the Crown.

This file contains correspondence between government members regarding the circulation of the Continental Daily News, a Japanese Canadian newspaper publication in Vancouver, BC.

This file contains petition documents sent to Ian Mackenzie and received by the Department of Pensions and National Health. The petition urges Mackenzie to "use [his] influence to have all enemy aliens and persons of Japanese origin removed from the defense zone of the Pacific Coast." The file contains many documents for multiple signatories.

This file contains correspondence and documents concerning policies regarding the forced uprooting of Japanese Canadians from restricted areas of British Columbia and the forced exile of Japanese national citizens.

This file contains documents pertaining to policies in place for the removal of Japanese Canadians from the coast with comparisons to the United States.

This file contains one report discussing post-war restrictions imposed on Japanese Canadians after the end of World War II.

This file contains various letters and government correspondence regarding loss claims submitted by the Japanese Canadian community in response to the dispossession of their property during World War II.

This file contains two pieces of correspondence relating to Japanese Canadian fishing vessels: a telegram to Justice Sidney Smith by J.E. Michaud in which Michaud requests Smith’s presence on the Japanese Fishing Vessel Disposal Committee and a telegram expressing Smith's assent.

This file contains a collection of letters, Orders-in-Council, and newspaper clippings related to discrimination against Japanese Canadians. It also includes the following pamphlets: a 1944 issue of a publication by the Fellowship of Reconciliation titled "Reconciliation" and a publication by Howard Norman and the Consultative Council titled "What About Japanese Canadians?"

This file contains newspaper clippings of articles of interest to the CCF regarding Japanese Canadian issues.

This file consists of a pamphlet (four pages) issued by the Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians. The pamphlet is titled "Our Japanese Canadians: CITIZENS NOT EXILES." It mentions the forcible liquidation of Japanese Canadian property as one of the injustices suffered.

This file contains letters, reports, minutes, and other documents relevant to the CCJC's activity regarding the Bird Commission (communique regarding secretaries’ salaries, lawyers’ remunerations, letters from CCJC to members, etc.).

This file contains correspondence and minutes of the Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians (CCJC). Included are minutes from executive meetings on September 10, October 10, November 6, November 25, and December 12, 1946.

This file is a list of awards to Bird Commission claimants put together by the Co-operative Committee of Japanese Canadians (CCJC). The list documents not only the awards given to each claimant (as of 17 July 1950) but also provides a reckoning of the net gains of each claimant (i.e., what is left from the awarded claim after relevant deductions [legal fees, membership fees, etc.]).

This file contains a series of briefs and submissions put forth by the CCJC in defense of their position between 1944 and 1950.

This file contains a letter from William S. Wallace to the Public Archives of Canada describing his sense of how the CCJC grew from being a Toronto-based organization to being a national organization and how Nisei viewed the Bird Commission settlements and politics regarding the commission within re-settled Japanese Canadians in Alberta.

This file contains a report titled "A Record of the Work of the Cooperative Committee of Japanese Canadians: June 1943 to September 1947." This document gives an overview of the history of achievements of the group in the years before their work forwarding claims and aiding claimants in the Bird Commission. The file also contains a letter from the Canadian Civil Liberties Union to Prime Minister King asking for a commission not unlike the Bird Commission to inquire into economic losses suffered during the war.

This file contains various documents regarding the co-ordination of operations between the JCCA and the CCJC and tensions with Toronto claimants (who asserted to speak on behalf of all Japanese Canadians in their criticisms of the commission).

This file contains a full list and text of the British Columbia Security Commission's Orders 1 to 46 (presented in reverse order). Also included is RCMP memoranda regarding enforcement of certain BCSC Orders.

This file contains material pertaining to claimants of the Bird Commission. It includes the following: letters to claimants on behalf of the CCJC (dated 19 April 1949 and 18 November 1949) updating them as to the status of the proceedings (i.e., what the Commission has decided regarding valuation and some legal advice on whether or not the CCJC ought to vote to accept this judgment); an April 1950 report to claimants on what had been decided regarding awards, how such had been decided, how the CCJC made its decisions regarding accepting or fighting for more awards, and so on; detailed assessment not only of category claims (%) but also of different types of claims and findings of fishing nets, vessels, cars, real estate, etc.; and a transparent CCJC budget.

This file contains various reports, statements, and bulletins relating to the CCJC. It includes the following: a series of reports and statements relating to the CCJC's action to establish a claims commission and to establish the terms of reference; the 26 October 1946 Report of the Sub-Committee on Restrictions and Property Losses, wherein the sub-committee recommends a claims commission, which includes several pages of "case histories"; reports detailing meetings with MPs to address the terms of reference and the CCJC's March 1947 draft terms of reference; and a copy of the amended Orders-in-Council, Order in Council P.C. 3737.

This file contains CCJC news bulletins and other documents relating to the repeal of the deportation law and the organization's re-orientation to focus on property loss and the claims commission. Also included are reports from meetings with MPs addressing the terms of reference and preparations for the claims commission hearings.

This file contains a collection of press clippings relating to the CCJC's 1946 Privy Council Appeal. While the Appeal concerned deportation, the press releases following the council's decision (02 December 1946) include mention of property loss and compensation. The file also includes press reaction to King's repeal (24 January 1947) of the deportation orders and promise for compensation for unjust property loss.

This file contains news clippings from various university publications that relate to the Canadian government's uprooting and "deportation" of Japanese Canadians. Digitized here are articles (roughly dated to 1945) from The Varsity, the University of Toronto's student newspaper, which express perspectives against the government's actions.

This file contains newspaper clippings addressing the forced uprooting, dispersal, and dispossession of Japanese Canadians in relation to Canadian citizenship and civil rights.

This file includes clippings and correspondence maintained by the CCJC. Digitized here is one newspaper clipping from The New Canadian titled "Refuse Transfer of Land to Evacuees: B.C. Government Policy Unchanged Says Maitland" and dated 17 April 1943.

This file contains various newspaper clippings relating to advocacy for Japanese Canadians in Canada. This selection includes a reporting on the developing of the spring 1947 meetings of the Cabinet Committee on Public Accounts and the development of the claims commission.

This file contains a series of letters that reflect Grace Tucker’s actions in Slocan following the establishment of the claims commission. Also contains material relating to the dispossession of Japanese Canadians.

This file contains CCJC agendas from 1947 to 1950. The material in the file illustrates the committee's actions during the claims commission. Also included in the file are lists of lawyer fees that express the organization’s division of labour.

This file contains detailed CCJC minutes from 1947 to 1950 (the majority of the minutes are from 1949 onwards). These minutes illustrate the committee's actions and activity during and after the claims commission and their perspective on the proceedings.

This file contains CCJC news bulletins from 1946 to 1948. These news bulletins express the organization's activity during their campaign against deportation and the lead up to and during the claims commission.

This file contains correspondence, memoranda, and other documents regarding the Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians and property loss claims (to the Bird Commission) and claimants. It also concerns the CCJC’s actions following the claims hearings, including the friction with the Toronto Claimants Committee.

This file contains an article titled "Some Facts About the Evacuation of Japanese-Canadians from the coastal areas of B.C. - 1942," dated 07 December 1941. The article summarizes the history of the forced uprooting of Japanese Canadians from the coast and the government's role in the process. Overall, it emphasizes the Anglican Church (and Christians in general) helping these displaced people. It also includes a short section on property.

This file contains a letter describing Donalda MacMillan and Hugh MacMillan’s (of the CCJC) departure to Taiwan. Also contains material relating to Canadians owning property in Japan and other countries as well as a 1947 press release from the Office of the Prime Minister mentioning compensation for property loss.

This file includes various pieces of correspondence, memoranda, and other documents pertaining to the following topics: the CCJC's and nation-wide Economic Loss Survey of British Columbia "evacuees"; the Bird Commission, claims hearings and legal counsel in Vancouver, and the claims of Japanese Americans; the Japanese Canadian Committee for Democracy; and financial aid and permission to bring personal property for those being forcibly exiled to Japan. The file also includes minutes for meetings in 1950 between the CCJC, the JCCA, and Toronto Claimants Committee where they discussed "Evacuation Losses Claims" and the outcome of the claims commission.

This file contains lists of names and addresses of the Co-operative Committee on Japanese Canadians's executive members along with an explanatory letter.

This file contains reports, one concerning the War Measures Act (1914) and the authority of the Governor in Council and the other concerning Colonel Pope's note about the War Measures Act, air raid precautions, treatment of ships and aircraft, treatment of enemy aliens, etc. The file includes one description of the Custodian's responsibility for compensation (from 1929 Hansard) and a subpoint noting that the nature of property confiscation in the proposed War Book needs to be clarified.

This file contains correspondence, reports, and other documents concerning the measures to be taken in event of war with Japan and Italian intervention in the War. Included is other material on various wartime measures.

This file contains general government reports and memoranda pertaining to the decisions of an advisory committee regarding the treatment of "enemy persons" in Canada.

This file contains a transcript of an interview with John E. Read in which he discusses his career in the Department of External Affairs, starting with his time in university.

This file contains newspaper clippings, personal correspondences, and First World War memorabilia of Justice Cartwright. It is comprised of documents mostly from his early adulthood.

This file contains personal correspondences, First World War memorabilia, telegrams of congratulations on Justice Cartwright's appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada, and personal notes made by Justice Cartwright at various hotel across the country. It consists primarily of documents dated up until the mid-1950s but does stretch back to the First World War.

This file contains the personal correspondence of and speeches given by Justice Cartwright during the 1950s-1960s. It spans much of the era Justice Cartwright spent sitting as a justice on the Supreme Court.

This file contains the speeches given at Justice Carwright's appointment and retirement as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. It pertains to Justice Carwright's later life; however, it does not include words he actually wrote or said and instead is made up of documents about him and his career.

This file primarily contains public statements, published in The New Canadian, by and memoranda from the CCJC dating between May and September 1947. These concern the establishment of the claims commission and its terms of reference, as well as the amendment to the terms of reference.

This file contains correspondence and memorandum related with Saul Cherniack's work as a CCJC legal consul for Bird Commission claimants. This includes correspondence with other claims commission lawyers about the terms of reference and hearing proceedings. Also includes an exchange with F.A. Brewin where Cherniack tries to understand the terms of reference and, particularly, how the Commissioner will treat claims related to fishing gear.

This file contains correspondence and memorandum related with Saul Cherniack's work as a CCJC legal consul for Bird Commission claimants. This includes correspondence with other claims commission lawyers about the terms of reference and hearing proceedings.

This file contains correspondence and memoranda related with Saul Cherniack's work at a CCJC legal consul for Bird Commission claimants. In a series of exchanges, Cherniack articulates his experience working with lawyer Jack Leckie on the cases and his first impressions of the hearing procedure. There is also some communication with Shears.

This file contains letters written by Joseph T. Thorson to his wife, Alleen Thorson, discussing meetings with politicians and public servants.

This file contains letters written by Joseph T. Thorson to his wife, Alleen Thorson, discussing his time in Ottawa as well as national cabinet and political meetings from 1937 to 1939.

This file contains letters written by Joseph T. Thorson to his wife, Alleen Thorson, discussing the political consequences of the war as of May 1940.

This file contains letters written by Joseph T. Thorson to his wife, Alleen Thorson, discussing war news and cabinet changes in June 1940.

This file contains letters written by Joseph T. Thorson to his wife, Alleen Thorson, discussing cabinet politics and government policy from July to August 1940.

This file contains letters written by Joseph T. Thorson to his wife, Alleen Thorson, discussing the session of the House of Commons between November to December 1940.

This file contains letters written by Joseph T. Thorson to his wife, Alleen Thorson, discussing Cabinet politics in February 1941.

This file contains letters written by Joseph T. Thorson to his wife, Alleen Thorson, discussing meetings with ministers and members of parliament in March 1941.

This file contains letters written by Joseph T. Thorson to his wife, Alleen Thorson, containing personal information and discussion of the proceedings of the Committees of the House of Commons during the first half of March 1941.

This file contains letters written by Joseph T. Thorson to his wife, Alleen Thorson, containing personal information and discussion of the proceedings of the Committees of the House of Commons during April 1941.

This file contains letters written by Joseph T. Thorson to his wife, Alleen Thorson, containing personal information and discussion of the proceedings of the Committees of the House of Commons during the first half of May 1941.

This file contains letters written by Joseph T. Thorson to his wife, Alleen Thorson, containing personal information and discussion of the proceedings of the Committees of the House of Commons during the latter half of May 1941.

This file contains letters written by Joseph T. Thorson to his wife, Alleen Thorson, regarding the bills presented before the Committees of the House of Commons during June 1941.

This file comprises letters written by Joseph T. Thorson to his wife, Alleen Thorson regarding his appointment as minister of National War Services and his meetings with the prime minister.

This file comprises letters written by Joseph T. Thorson to his wife, Alleen Thorson, discussing the proceedings in the House of Commons during July 1941.

This file comprises many pieces of correspondence expressing congratulations to Joseph T. Thorson on his election to the House of Commons.

This file contains pieces of correspondence and other documents including articles, one on Joseph T. Thorson, from the Ottawa Journal; various letters sent to Thorson; and a letter to Rev. Canon W.W. Judd from Thorson concerning Canadians of Icelandic origin in active service. Also contains excerpts from articles in Canadians newspapers about Daphne du Maurier's "Come Wind, Come Weather."

This file contains a letter written by Charles Vining and a House of Commons report for a speech by Joseph T. Thorson on 13 November 1940 concerning the Canadian war effort.

This file comprises many various newspaper clippings related to the following: claims for expropriations (three related to the expansion of the Vancouver, Regina, and Montreal airports and one for the CN rail); the War Expenditures Committee; and Joseph T. Thorson.

This file comprises an Exchequer Court of Canada report of the "draft of judgement" for the case of Baron Édouard de Rothschild, Germaine Halphen, Miss Bethsabée de Rothschild, and Jacqueline de Rothschild v. the Custodian of Enemy Property.

This file comprises an Exchequer Court of Canada report regarding the "reasons for judgement" and "suggested headnote" for the case of Mary Braun v. the Custodian.

This file includes an Exchequer Court of Canada report with the "reasons for judgement" for the case of Edward Bitter v. the Secretary of State of Canada, as Custodian of Alien Enemy Property.