Internment of Japanese Canadians During World War II

CHC2D8Ms. Gluskin

What is Your Opinion?

• Is discrimination ever justified?• Just because Canada was at war with Japan

did that make it fair to imprison Japanese Canadians?

Minoru

• Minoru (NFB) https://www.nfb.ca/film/minoru-memory-of-exile (19mins)

• http://www.cbc.ca/player/Digital+Archives/War+and+Conflict/Second+World+War/Japanese-Canadian+Internment/ID/1724005856/

• CBC Archives, 1988 – Apology to Japanese Canadians. (4:30 mins)

Vocabulary 188-189• Measures (noun) = actions toward a goal• Suspend rights (verb) = take away people’s normal rights• National emergency (noun) = situation where a country is

experiencing a very serious problem, such as a war, and may take unusual actions

• Enemy aliens (noun) = people from countries Canada was at war with

• Interior (noun) = inside• Internment (noun) = imprisonment• Seized (verb) = took by force• Redress (noun) = to make an apology for something that

happened in the past

History of Japanese Canadians

• https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/021013-2141.1-e.html (Library and Archives Canada)

Internment Camp

Kananaskis Internment Camp.

Camp Locations

National Association of Japanese Canadians, Map of Internment Centres, 2005, http://www.najc.ca/thenandnow/internment.php (May 1, 2014).

Camps were located in the interior of B.C.

Property Seizure

Property such as boats, homes, businesses were seized by the government.

CBC News, UBC awards degrees to interned Japanese students, May 30, 2012, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ubc-awards-degrees-to-interned-japanese-canadian-students-1.1213676 (May 30, 2014).

Worksheet

• Continuity and Change• Reasons (?)