Japanese Canadians were denied the right to vote until the late 1940s. 22,000 Japanese placed in internment camps During and after World War II, the federal government enacted policies that had a ...
The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by air..." Japanese Canadians were shipped to interior B.C. aboard trains during the Second World War. Picture here, children looking out a train ...
who lived in a small town in western Canada. The town was the site of an internment camp for Japanese descendants during World War II. “We lost possession of all our property and were rounded up ...
A University of Victoria research team has discovered that the City of Vancouver played a much more significant role in the wartime dispossession of Japanese Canadians than previously thought.
Senjiro Hayashi founded Hayashi Studio and it was later operated by other Japanese Canadian photographers, including Tokitaro Matsubuchi. Over the decades, the studio became an integral part of ...