Several Japanese Canadians who were forced out of their homes into internment camps by the Canadian government in the Second World War are now living in Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care in ...

In all, more than 20,000 Japanese people—including a majority who were naturalized citizens or Canadian by birth—were forced to move to these remote internment camps.

Internment camps inland. The family was first sent to Greenwood, B.C., the site of a former copper mine, where they slept on the floor of the tiny shack, where they were forced to live.

Internment did permanent damage to what was previously a thriving Japanese-Canadian community in B.C. From Steveston to Cumberland, Japantowns existed alongside Chinatowns in logging and fishing ...

In many ways, Canada's Japanese citizens were treated worse than their US counterparts in WW II internment camps. They had their property seized, and many were forcibly deported to Japan or had ...

An aerial view, looking east, of Tashme, B.C., Canada's largest wartime internment camp for Canadians of Japanese descent. Photo by 2012.45.1.28 /Nikkei National Museum / Nikkei National Museum ...

Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Canada stripped Thomson’s family and around 22,000 other Japanese Canadians — 70 per cent of whom were born in the country — of ...

Canada, Mexico and several countries in South America also had similar programmes. Between 1942-1946, about 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated from their homes to live in ...

Numerous authors have written about the period of Japanese American internment during World War II; here are 15 titles worth checking out.

Canada, like the United States, also interned people of Japanese and German descent. Authorities forcibly moved some 22,000 Japanese Canadians en masse from their homes to internment camps and ...