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The Liberal government also deported able-bodied Japanese-Canadian labourers to camps near fields and orchards, such as BC's Okanagan Valley. The Japanese-Canadian labourers were used as a solution to a shortage of farm workers. [62] This obliterated any Japanese competition in the fishing sector.
Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre is a museum that preserves and interprets one of ten Canadian concentration camps where more than 27,000 Japanese Canadians were incarcerated by the Canadian government during and after World War II (1942 to 1949). [2] The centre was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2007. [2]
The Tashme Internment Camp was the largest and one of the most isolated Japanese internment camps constructed in 1942 by the Canadian government as part of its World War 2 policies. [26] It is located 14 miles southeast of Hope, BC.
There were 40 known prisoner-of-war camps across Canada during World War II, although this number also includes internment camps that held Canadians of German and Japanese descent. [1] Several reliable sources indicate that there were only 25 or 26 camps holding exclusively prisoners from foreign countries, nearly all from Germany. [2] [3] [4]
The camp was designed to house the families of men employed to work on constructing the Hope-Princeton highway, and was one of several road camps. [4] Tashme was the only internment site that was built for the purpose of Japanese Canadian internment, while the other sites were in ghost towns or villages. [11]
Hide Hyodo Shimizu CM (1908–1999) was a Japanese-Canadian educator and activist. She was an advocate for Japanese-Canadian rights and enfranchisement, and during World War II she established and operated schools for Japanese-Canadian children in internment camps. Shimizu was later awarded the Order of Canada for her work. [1]
Kanao Inouye (井上 加奈雄 / カナオ・イノウエ, Inoyue Kanao, May 24, 1916 – August 27, 1947) [1] was a Japanese Canadian convicted of high treason and war crimes for his actions during World War II. Known as the "Kamloops Kid", he served as an interpreter and prison camp guard for the Imperial Japanese Army and the Kenpeitai ...
On February 24, 1942, an order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations made under the War Measures Act gave the federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin." [2] Nearly 21,000 people of Japanese descent were placed in these camps. In December 1945, the federal Cabinet issued three Orders in ...