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Japanese Canadian internment in the Second World War
Title:
Japanese Canadian internment in the Second World War
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Summary:
This book is an illustrated history of the wartime internment of Japanese Canadian residents of British Columbia. At the time when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Japanese Canadians numbered well over 20,000. From the first arrivals in the late nineteenth century, they had taken up work in many parts of BC, established communities, and become part of the Canadian society even though they faced racism and prejudice in many forms. With war came wartime hysteria. Japanese Canadian residents of BC were rounded up, their homes and property seized, and forced to move to internment camps with inadequate housing, water, and food. Men and older boys went to road camps while some families ended up on farms where they were essentially slave labour. Eventually, after years of pressure, the Canadian government admitted that the internment was wrong and apologized for it. This book uses a wide range of historical photographs, documents, and images of museum artefacts to tell the story of the internment. The impact of these events is underscored by first-person narrative from five Japanese Canadians who were themselves youths at the time their families were forced to move to the camps.
Year Published:
2011
Volume:
1
Physical Description:
160 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps, ports. ; 29 cm.
Contents:
Introduction -- Coming to Canada -- Japanese Canadians in BC, 1900-1939 -- War -- Enemy Aliens -- Internment and Forced Labour -- Aftermath -- Acknowledging the Past.
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ISBN:
9781552778531
Publisher:
Toronto : James Lorimer and Co., c2011.