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What are we looking at today?

What are we looking at today?. Background Towards Internment Timeline Conditions. Background: Events Leading to Japanese Internment. World Events: Pearl Harbour (Dec 7) Hong Kong (Dec 8) Canada Reacts Businesses fire all Japanese workers Japanese fisherman order to stay in port.

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What are we looking at today?

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  1. What are we looking at today? Background Towards Internment Timeline Conditions

  2. Background:Events Leading to Japanese Internment • World Events: • Pearl Harbour (Dec 7) • Hong Kong (Dec 8) • Canada Reacts • Businesses fire all Japanese workers • Japanese fisherman order to stay in port Japanese owned fishing boats at port.

  3. Towards Internment:Canadians Mobilize Against Japanese-Canadians • Calls for internment of Japanese in Canada “It is the government’s plan to get these people out of B.C. as fast as possible. It is my personal intention, as long as I remain in public life, to see they never come back here. Let our slogan be from British Columbia: ‘No Japs from the rockies to the seas.’”- Ian Mackenzie (Cabinet Minister) Public opinion forces politicians to act.

  4. Internment Poster This poster instructs persons of Japanese decent about the procedure they must follow before going off to the internment camps.

  5. Timeline:Discrimination Intensifies • 14 January 1942- 100 mile wide “Protected Area” • Male Japanese Canadians removed to road camps • 14 March 1942- Japanese told to leave “protected area”- curfew imposed • One Suitcase Please... • They were allowed to bring one suitcase full of personal belongings • All other possessions are sold by government

  6. Map of Internment Camps Why would the government move the Japanese 100 miles away from the coast?

  7. Timeline:Government Appologizes "I know that I speak for members on all sides of the House today in offering to Japanese Canadians the formal and sincere apology of this Parliament for those past injustices against them, against their families, against their heritage, and our solemn commitment and undertaking to Canadians of every origin that such violations will never again in this country be countenanced or repeated." – Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, House of Commons, Sept. 22, 1988. • After the War: • Deportation or Relocation • Relocation- Ontario, Quebec or Prairies • Deportation- Back to Japan • Re-instatement of citizenship to the “repatriated” Japanese • Redress: • Government Apologizes • Payment of $21,000 to all surviving evacuees

  8. Conditions:Inside the Camps Typical Camp Layout Two Family Home Layout

  9. Conditions:Personal • This is what David Suzuki has to say about his experience in internment camps

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