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The actions of Japan leading up to World War II were also seen as cause for concern. Japan withdrew from the League of Nations in 1933, ignored the naval ratio set up by the Washington Naval Conference of 1922, refused to follow the Second London Naval Treaty in 1936, and allied with Germany with the Anti-Comintern Pact. Because many Canadians ...
The Tashme Incarceration Camp (/ ˈ t æ ʒ m ɪ / [Anglicized pronunciation] or / ˈ t ɑː ʃ ɪ m ɪ / [Japanese pronunciation]) was a purpose-built incarceration camp constructed to forcibly detain people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast of Canada during World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Canadian people who died in Japanese internment camps (1 P) Pages in category "Canadian prisoners of war in World War II" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
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]
Italian Canadian Montrealer, Mario Duliani wrote "The City Without Women" about his life in the internment camp Petawawa during World War II; it is a personal account of the struggles of the time. Throughout the country Italians were investigated by RCMP officials who had a compiled list of Italian persons who were politically involved and ...
Japanese-Canadian internees (31 P) Pages in category "Internment of Japanese Canadians" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
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 ...
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]