Collection search - "Asiatic" or "Asian" case files [textual record]

Title is based on the contents of the sub-series.

No further accruals are expected.

At least six special series of case files have been opened at various dates since the 1920's to document the arrival of individuals classed as "Asiatics" under the exclusionary Orders in Council. The oldest appear to be the "Hindu" (H prefix) files, a few examples of which survive in B.C. regional office files in RG76 accessions V-"42805, 1984-85/279" and V-"43938, 1985-86/472". These may have been superseded by the "AN" (Asian or Asiatic) files in this sub-series. Some of the persons entering Canada under the quota agreements (see RG76-D-3-b) were documented in files prefixed "ND", none of which have survived. There are also examples in accessions at the Vancouver Federal Records Centre of Asiatic case files prefixed M (Malayan or Malaysian), T (Thai) and J (Japanese). A large proportion of these files were opened and maintained in regional or local Immigration offices on the West Coast, rather than at Ottawa.