![]() ![]() The trust abandoned, a promise broken, the Custodian sold everything it had taken. In January 1943, a new order-in-council authorized the sale of all seized Japanese-Canadian-owned property. Demands from the Japanese Canadian community and concern from within the corridors of government resulted in amendments to those orders which made clear that the Custodian held that property as a “protective” trust, and would return it to Japanese Canadians at the conclusion of the war. In 1942, while it ordered the internment of 21,457 Canadians of Japanese descent, the Canadian government enacted orders-in-council authorizing the Custodian of Enemy Property to seize all real and personal property owned by Japanese Canadians living within coastal British Columbia. This article is about the origins, betrayal, and litigation of a promise of law.
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