This photo was taken on Dec. 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It actually has nothing to do with internment; this is a Vancouver police officer escorting two Japanese-Canadian ...

Then-prime minister Brian Mulroney formally apologized in 1988 for Canada's role in the internment of Japanese Canadians and British Columbia recognized the discrimination and tremendous losses ...

Eighty years ago this week, Japanese Canadians in British Columbia were forced into internment camps by the federal government. It wasn't until 1949 that they were accepted back into B.C. Three ...

Long-forgotten in the bowels of Library and Archives Canada lies a trove of some of the most remarkable first-person documents in Canadian history: letters from Japanese-Canadians protesting their ...

Esquimalt, British Columbia. December 9, 1941. An officer from the Royal Canadian Navy interviewing Japanese-Canadian fishermen as their boat is confiscated. (CP PHOTO) 1999 (National Archives of ...

Authors Pamela Hickman and Masako Fukawa skilfully follow the story of the Japanese in Canada, from the first wave of immigrants in 1877 through the internment years and the fight for redress.

The exhibits REGISTERED: The Japanese Canadian Experience and H-Hour: Normandy 1944 document Japanese internment camps in Canada and the D-Day invasions. Photo by Crystal Schick / - Article content ...

Other Japanese-language newspapers were shut down after the outbreak of war. More than 22,000 Japanese Canadians in B.C. were ordered detained and sent to internment and work camps far from the coast.

Canada’s (then) Prime Minister Brian Mulroney giving the apology in the House of Commons, Sept 22 1988. Photo Credit: CBC. History Sept. 22, 1988: apology to Japanese-Canadians of WWII ...

Eighty years after looting destroyed Canada’s first Japanese garden and tea house in Esquimalt, B.C., the township is working to rebuild a community landmark and redress an historical injustice. When ...