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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]
Mary Kitagawa (nee Murakami; born 1935) OBC is a Canadian educator. As a Japanese-Canadian growing up in British Columbia, her family was placed in various Japanese Internment Camps during World War II. After the war, she accepted a position in Kitsilano Secondary School and was later awarded an honorary degree from the University of British ...
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.
Minoru: Memory of Exile is a 1992 animated documentary about the Japanese Canadian internment by Michael Fukushima.The film recreates the experiences of the filmmaker's father, Minoru, who as a child was sent along with his family and thousands of other Japanese Canadians to internment camps in the interior of British Columbia.
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.
The story of the film centers on Irene Kawai, a Japanese American teenager in Chicago in the 1970s who is haunted by a photo of her grandfather she never knew standing by a barracks in a World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans.
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]
Japanese-Canadian internees (31 P) Pages in category "Internment of Japanese Canadians" ... Internment camp in Vernon; L. Lemon Creek, British Columbia ...