Accession MS COLL 00689 - Frank Gould Shears Papers

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CA OTUTF MS COLL 00689

Title

Frank Gould Shears Papers

Date(s)

  • 1941-1958 (Creation)

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Accession

Extent and medium

17 boxes (ca. 2 metres)

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(1885-1964)

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Scope and content

Consists of material created or gathered by F.G. Shears in his capacity as the director of the Vancouver branch of the office of the Custodian of Enemy Property. The Vancouver office was established in 1942 following the attack on Pearl Harbor, with the special purpose of overseeing the seizure and, later, liquidation of assets of Japanese removed from the Pacific exclusion zone for internment. The office also helped with the administering of Japanese claims for remuneration in accordance with the findings of the Royal Commission, and Justice Henry Irving Bird, in 1950. The office was closed on March 31, 1952.

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Accruals

System of arrangement

Collection is divided into 7 series:

  1. Correspondence
  2. Reports
    • Assorted, unpublished
    • Bird Commission
  3. Deep Bay Logging Company
  4. Office documents
  5. Newspaper clippings
  6. Published items
  7. Miscellaneous

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Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/stack-retrieval-request

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Description identifier

CA OTUTF MS COLL00689

Institution identifier

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

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