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Treatment of Japanese-Canadians since World War II

By mswb

  • Pearl Harbour bombed

    Pearl Harbour bombed
    Creative Commons- Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
    - USA and Canada are then at war with Japan
    - Image Information, Creative Commons

  • Start of relocating Japanese-Canadians

    Start of relocating Japanese-Canadians
    • sent to Jasper, Alberta
    • Japanese viewed as a security threat on the west coast of B.C.

  • Government Order-in-Council inflicts harsh laws

    • removes Japanese-Canadians from west coast
    • institutes a dusk-to-dawn curfew
    • allows police to search homes and take possessions without a search warrant

  • relocation to internment camps

    relocation to internment camps
    -- sent to interior of B.C.
    -- Greenwood, Sandon, Kaslo, New Denver (Kootenay-Boundary and West Kootenays)
    - image information: Japanese internment camp, Tashme, 1942. BC Archives E-09913

  • Law against coastal occupation

    Law against coastal occupation
    Order-in-Council.gif)
  • Period: to

    Treatment of Japanese Canadians from WWII-1990s

  • Property rights stripped

    • all land and homes belonging to Japanese-Canadians is confiscated and sold

  • more relocation

    • Japanese-Canadians forced to choose between deportation to Japan or relocation to Rockies

  • Japanese-Canadians demand compensation

    • Japanese-Canadians demand compensation for property seized in war

  • Re-settlement in B.C.

    • people of Japanese descent allowed to return to B.C.

  • Beginning of compensation

    Canadian government compensates internees with a total payment of 1.2 million (divided among internees)

  • Japanese-Canadians seek redress

    Japanese-Canadian redress agreement

  • Federal government issues formal apology

    Government of Canada - apology

  • B.C. Government apologizes

    National Post article