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The Vancouver Buddhist Church, formerly the Japanese Methodist Church, still exists at 220 Jackson Avenue at Powell, [7] as does the Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall at 475 and 487 Alexander Street at Jackson, which is the only property in Canada that was ever returned to Japanese Canadians after World War II. [8]
Japanese Canadians (日系カナダ人, Nikkei Kanadajin, French: Canadiens japonais) are Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Canadians are mostly concentrated in Western Canada, especially in the province of British Columbia, which hosts the largest Japanese community in the country with the majority of them living in and around Vancouver.
The lifting of the War Measures Act in 1949 restored Japanese freedom of movement throughout Canada; some Japanese Buddhists returned to BC, many stayed in Alberta and others settled elsewhere. Many temples now have a multicultural population consisting of Japanese, Japanese-Canadians and non-Japanese members.
Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden (officially Nikka Yuko Centennial Garden) is a 3.75-acre (15,200 m 2) traditional Japanese garden located in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. The garden was designed by Dr. Masami Sugimoto and Dr. Tadashi Kubo of Osaka Prefecture University in Japan .
As a result, Steveston became the second-largest Japanese-Canadian settlement after Vancouver before World War II. [18] His recruitment also made Mio district the largest single source of Japanese emigrants to Canada. In 1900, the Japanese population of Steveston was estimated to be 4,500. [19]
Sister cities sign in Victoria Map of Canada. This is a list of municipalities in Canada which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
For convenience, all villages in Alberta should be included in this category. This includes all villages that can also be found in the subcategories. The main article for this category is List of villages in Alberta; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Villages in Alberta
Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to the continent of Asia.Canadians with Asian ancestry comprise both the largest and fastest growing group in Canada, after European Canadians, forming approximately 20.2 percent of the Canadian population as of 2021, making up the majority of Canada’s visible minority population.