Collection search - Prosecution, conference and regulation case files [textual record]

Box 1-27 are files created by the Department of Justice during and after the Second World War. They document the department's war effort. They cover such subject as: the drafting of war's laws, the internment of italian and japanese canadians; the prosecutions of subsversive individuals, subversives organisations and war criminals.

Boxes 29-158 contain records that document the activities of the Department of Justice in its work of preparing legislation and regulations in co-operation with other departments and in its planning and co-ordination of legislation being considered by Parliament. Some of the subjects include: the Defence of Canada regulations, the Regency Act, the Official Secrets Act, ordinances of the Northwest Territories and the Yukon, the Criminal Law Act, the Old Age Security Act, the Criminal Code of Canada, and the Government Organization Act.

Boxes 40-44 also contain some extradition files.

47.7 m of textual records.