Japanese Canadian Internment
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British Columbia and the Japanese Evacuation
Thomson, Grace. Re-shaping Memory: Owning History Through the Lens of
Japanese Canadian Redress. Available at the Japanese Canadian National
Museum and Archives Society: Burnaby, 2002.
Ward, Peter. "British Columbia and the Japanese Evacuation" In Readings in
Canadian History: Post Confederation, edited by Francis, R. Douglas and
Donald B. Smith, 328-343. Toronto: Harcourt Canada, 2002.
In this essay, which was first published in 1976, Ward discusses the evacuation of Japanese in British Columbia. Because of the war's outbreak, and the great anti-Japanese feeling on the west coast, during 1942, more than 22,000 Japanese Canadian citizens on the coastal region were forced to abandon their homes and move eastward under government supervision...