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Minorities in WWII Canada

Minorities in WWII Canada. Women and the War Effort War Brides Japanese Internment Enemy Aliens. Women in the War Effort. Women went back to Work! Worked in war industry roles that were traditionally masculine Welders, drillers, machine operators Women in high demand!

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Minorities in WWII Canada

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  1. Minorities in WWII Canada Women and the War Effort War Brides Japanese Internment Enemy Aliens

  2. Women in the War Effort • Women went back to Work! • Worked in war industry roles that were traditionally masculine • Welders, drillers, machine operators Women in high demand! • Some companies built dormitories close to factories

  3. Employment Programs for Women • National Selective Service Program • registered women for work in factories and established daycare centers • Ontario and Quebec • Canadian Women’s Army Corps • served as clerks, drivers, and nurses By 1945 almost 1/3 of women employed in the War Effort

  4. Rosie the Riveter/ Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl

  5. Enemy Aliens • Nationals living in a country that is at war with their homeland • The government considered them a security risk

  6. Japanese Canadians • 1941 Pearl Harbour attacks and the Invasion of Hong Kong increased anti-Japanese sentiment in Canada • 22 000 Japanese Canadians living in BC

  7. Japanese Internment Camps • 1942 the War Measures Act invoked • All Japanese Canadians “invited” to move to the Okanogan Valley • Settled in “temporary” relocation centers • Soon forced to leave the coast • Separated families • Forced to stay until the end of the war

  8. David Suzuki Interned with his mother when he was 6 Father forced to work in labour camp

  9. It gets Worse! • 1943 federal officials called Custodians of Enemy Property, were given the power to confiscate and sell Japanese Canadian’s property • People lost everything • 1945 the federal government gave a choice • Move to war torn Japan or Move to the Rocky Mountains • Supreme Court upheld the government • Over 2000 Japanese Canadians deported

  10. Scar of the Great White North • 1947 the government cancels the policy • 1988 Apology to Japanese Canadians • $21 000 each in compensation • Restore Canadian citizenship for deported

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