Japanese Canadians
During World War II, approximately 21,000 Japanese Canadians, citizens and non-citizens alike, were removed from their homes in western British Columbia and placed in camps in the interior of the country. Able-bodied men, both Issei and Nisei, were separated from their families and sent to work in forests and on railroads and highways. Families were subsequently banished to remote mining ghost towns, sent to work on sugar beet farms, or permitted to resettle east of the Cascade Mountains where the government severely restricted their movements. Land, buildings, and other properties were seized without compensation and without the owners' permission. Japanese Canadians were forbidden from returning to the West Coast until 1949, four years after the war ended. In September 1988, the Canadian government formally apologized for the mass removal and incarceration and awarded individual compensation to all survivors.
Japanese Canadians
(126)
Related articles from the
Densho Encyclopedia :
S.I. Hayakawa,
Japanese Canadian exclusion and incarceration
![Pacific Citizen, Vol. 83, No. 16 (October 15, 1976) (ddr-pc-48-41)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/15/39/1539535bda95749a1b2fd4c03b3bc718.jpg)
![Pacific Citizen, Vol. 83, No. 22 (November 26, 1976) (ddr-pc-48-47)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/95/3e/953e025b8bdcbb79603bfeba636293e4.jpg)
![Pacific Citizen, Vol. 84, No. 19 (May 20, 1977) (ddr-pc-49-19)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/7b/f8/7bf828753f7d20ec87a54ab3dfac97ff.jpg)
![Pacific Citizen, Supplement to 1974 Holiday Issue (December 20-27, 1974) (ddr-pc-46-51)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/0e/a4/0ea4b0bba79ebfa645a382b91694ee4e.jpg)
![Pacific Citizen, Vol. 81, No. 12 (September 19, 1975) (ddr-pc-47-37)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/4c/29/4c295604a5c1cf5c65ccc7a895b265e9.jpg)
![Pacific Citizen, Vol. 80, No. 14 (April 11, 1975) (ddr-pc-47-14)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/99/ac/99acd17659317808cdad4e489dcb9916.jpg)
![Pacific Citizen, Vol. 84, No. 4 (February 4, 1977) (ddr-pc-49-4)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/21/56/215696818e5258639bc88747e4cfeb90.jpg)
![Pacific Citizen, Vol. 89, No. 2070 (November 23, 1979) (ddr-pc-51-46)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/df/e9/dfe9d945f812e85d121bf6f9f82ebb33.jpg)
![Pacific Citizen, Vol. 94, No. 1 (January 1-8, 1982) (ddr-pc-54-1)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/b3/c3/b3c311d86bcedaa34f74f593d2ff8daa.jpg)
![Pacific Citizen, Vol. 99, No. 2 (July 13, 1984) (ddr-pc-56-27)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/b3/e0/b3e04fcf7a267aab77ae777909efca4f.jpg)
![Pacific Citizen, Vol. 110, No. 3 (January 26, 1990) (ddr-pc-62-3)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/3a/8e/3a8e624b28765f9efdaef9320dcae64a.jpg)
![Pacific Citizen, Vol. 122, No. 10 (May 17-June 6, 1996) (ddr-pc-68-10)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/f2/db/f2dbac7db853922f8c399869a3500b89.jpg)
![Japanese-Canadians on a train to an incarceration camp (ddr-csujad-52-11)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/90/c8/90c8886af18754a5fd2e0ac7b0172c0c.jpg)
![Scrapbook page:](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/e1/96/e196dc17883ebc47eb099d1f8ce1e0a2.jpg)
![The Newell Star, Vol. I, No. 31 (September 28, 1944) (ddr-densho-284-37)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/e8/fa/e8fa204970ac3bf1c80103ec16f73ef8.jpg)
![The New Japanese American News 1949 Yearbook (ddr-densho-474-54)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/f4/b0/f4b0c0c7558e194a749cf93863799b02.jpg)
![Crossroads VIII, No. 37 (December 23, 1955) (ddr-densho-507-4)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/73/88/7388f57ede87058095c58350a98204df.jpg)
![Nisei Vue Vol. 1 No. 2 (Summer, 1948) (ddr-densho-266-2)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/36/5e/365e219cc5dd896d023d3efdeb3c0b09.jpg)
![Japanese Canadians (ddr-csujad-55-363)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/f2/90/f29042c6508bb95749eecc98f98827a0.jpg)
![Henry Shimizu Interview Segment 40 (ddr-densho-1000-198-40)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/7d/a3/7da31135fa00f53d43d40d35dbb77a68.jpg)
![Henry Shimizu Interview Segment 39 (ddr-densho-1000-198-39)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/7d/a3/7da31135fa00f53d43d40d35dbb77a68.jpg)
![Henry Shimizu Interview Segment 43 (ddr-densho-1000-198-43)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/7d/a3/7da31135fa00f53d43d40d35dbb77a68.jpg)
![Henry Shimizu Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-198-20)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/7d/a3/7da31135fa00f53d43d40d35dbb77a68.jpg)
![Henry Shimizu Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-198-7)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/7d/a3/7da31135fa00f53d43d40d35dbb77a68.jpg)
![Henry Shimizu Interview Segment 36 (ddr-densho-1000-198-36)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/7d/a3/7da31135fa00f53d43d40d35dbb77a68.jpg)