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    The document summarizes the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War 2. It describes how after Pearl Harbor, over 22,000 Japanese Canadians had their property seized and were forcibly relocated to internment camps in the interior of BC and the Prairies. They lived in poor conditions under strict restrictions and surveillance. While the RCMP found they posed no security threat, prejudice and ignorance led the government to violate their civil rights during the war out of misplaced fears of disloyalty and invasion. The injustice was later acknowledged but not for many decades.

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    The document summarizes the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War 2. It describes how after Pearl Harbor, over 22,000 Japanese Canadians had their property seized and were forcibly relocated to internment camps in the interior of BC and the Prairies. They lived in poor conditions under strict restrictions and surveillance. While the RCMP found they posed no security threat, prejudice and ignorance led the government to violate their civil rights during the war out of misplaced fears of disloyalty and invasion. The injustice was later acknowledged but not for many decades.

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    A Black Spot On Canada's History

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    The document summarizes the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War 2. It describes how after Pearl Harbor, over 22,000 Japanese Canadians had their property seized and were forcibly relocated to internment camps in the interior of BC and the Prairies. They lived in poor conditions under strict restrictions and surveillance. While the RCMP found they posed no security threat, prejudice and ignorance led the government to violate their civil rights during the war out of misplaced fears of disloyalty and invasion. The injustice was later acknowledged but not for many decades.

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    A Black Spot on Canada’s

    History:
    The Internment of Japanese
    Canadians
    Japanese Canadians Come Under
    Attack
    • Prior to Pearl Harbor, there are many
    people living in Canada who are of Asian
    descent
    • They are often resented as a cultural
    group because they are competing for
    jobs with “Canadians”
    • They accept lower wages
    • They are easy targets because they are a
    visible minority.
    Post Pearl Harbor
    • There is a great deal of
    suspicion towards the Japanese
    • They might give secret
    information to Japan and help
    plan an invasion of Canada!
    • Of 22,000 Japanese-Canadians,
    only 14 were born in Japan,
    most did not speak Japanese
    and had little to no connection to
    Japan
    • The RCMP state that there is no
    threat posed by the Japanese to
    national security
    But…
    The Government declares the War
    Measures Act
    • The government seizes Japanese-Canadian
    property and they are removed from their
    homes
    • Fishing boats (their livelihood) are taken away
    • They are relocated into the interior of BC and
    the Prairies
    • They are denied all rights and could not legally
    refuse to go
    • They are
    fingerprinted,
    photographed, i.d.
    numbers are given
    and have to be
    carried by them at all
    times.
    • Can only take one
    suitcase
    • The rest of their
    belongings are
    auctioned off
    Internment Camps
    • Dignity is threatened
    • They live in
    uninsulated, tar-
    paper shacks with no
    electricity
    • Families are
    separated – men are
    sent to work at
    building roads and on
    farms
    Post-War Treatment
    • in 1945 they are forced to decide between
    staying in Canada or returning to Japan
    • Many stay but are forced to stay east of
    the Rockies, Manitoba, Ontario and
    Quebec
    Germans and Italians
    • Internment is not as
    bad for them
    • Many are interned,
    photographed and
    fingerprinted
    • Some are fired from
    their jobs
    Why is this done?
    IGNORANCE
    The Acknowledgement
    • In 1988 the Federal government
    acknowledges that this treatment was
    “unjust”
    • Survivors and the families of those who
    were already dead were given financial
    compensation

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