Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1941-1958 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
17 boxes (ca. 2 metres)
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
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.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Collection is divided into 7 series:
- Correspondence
- Reports
- Assorted, unpublished
- Bird Commission
- Deep Bay Logging Company
- Office documents
- Newspaper clippings
- Published items
- Miscellaneous
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://aeon.library.utoronto.ca