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Deportation was later cancelled due to public protest, but not before nearly 4, people had been sent to Japan, including many Nisei who had never travelled outside of Canada. On April 1, , Japanese Canadians were given the right to vote and the legal restrictions used to control the movement of Japanese Canadians were removed.
No Japanese Canadian was ever charged with disloyalty, and the incident is now acknowledged as one of the worst human rights violations in B. Toggle navigation Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. Persecution intensified on December 18th, when Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong and killed or imprisoned most of the 2, Canadian soldiers defending the island.
The diseases On January 14, , a mile wide strip along the coast was designated a "protected area" by the federal government and all male Japanese Canadians between the ages of 18 and 45 were to be removed from the area and taken to road camps in the interior. On March 4, , all people of Japanese racial origin were told to leave the protected area. A dusk to dawn curfew was imposed and enforced by police.
Most of the Japanese with either naturalized citizens or born in Canada. Japanese Canadian women and children were relocated to shantytowns in the B. Pictured here, a community kitchen at Japanese-Canadian internment camp in Greenwood, B.
National Archives of Canada, C Japanese Canadians were told to pack a single suitcase each and taken to holding areas, to wait for trains to take them inland. Vancouver's Hastings Park was one of areas where families waited, sometimes for months, to be relocated. The walls between the rows of steel bunks were only five feet high, their normal use being to tether animals.
After months in animal stalls, the Japanese-Canadians were shipped on sealed trains to the interior Husbands and wives, parents and children were separated -- the men to work on road gangs: women and children to shantytowns in the B. There was no electricity or running water. Those who resisted their internment were sent to prisoner of war camps in Petawawa , Ontario ; or to Camp on the northern shore of Lake Superior. The proceeds were used to pay the costs of detaining Japanese Canadians.
Anti-Japanese racism was not confined to British Columbia. Though in need of labour, Albertans did not want Japanese Canadians in their midst. Alberta sugar beet farmers crowded Japanese labourers into tiny shacks, uninsulated granaries and chicken coops; they paid them a pittance for their hard labour.
More than 90 per cent of Japanese Canadians — some 21, people — were uprooted during the war. The majority were British subjects by birth. Before , both people born in Canada and naturalized immigrants were considered British subjects; in other words, they were citizens of the Commonwealth.
Canadian citizenship came into effect in January Even after the war, Mackenzie King continued to bow to the most strident demands of the politicians and the citizens he represented. He offered Japanese Canadians two choices: move to Japan; or disperse to provinces east of the Rocky Mountains. He never expressed any regrets for the treatment of Japanese Canadians , during the war or after.
In , nearly 4, former internees chose to leave Canada for bombed-out Japan. About 2, were aging first-generation immigrants — 1, were children under 16 years of age. The last controls on Japanese Canadians were not lifted until , when they were granted the right to vote.
Finally, Canadian society began to open to the Japanese.
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