By Lorene Oikawa, Past President NAJC On November 30, 1942, the first issue of Kaslo edition of The New Canadian newspaper is published. The New Canadian staff was moved to Kaslo in the previous month. The newspaper becomes the primary source of information for the internment/incarceration camps. The government also used the newspaper to disseminate...Continue reading
September 30, 1942 By September 30, 1942, Hastings Park Assembly Centre is officially closed. The Hastings Park hospital remains open with 105 people who remain there until March 1943 when the hospital is closed, and the patients and staff are sent to a new Sanatorium in New Denver. 8,000 of the approximately 22,000 Japanese Canadians...
Ken Adachi in his book, The Enemy That Never Was, described how advance parties of Nisei and Issei men were sent to the interior towns to repair vacant houses and buildings to receive the uprooted Japanese Canadians from the west coast. However, the preparation wasn’t planned well by the Security Commission and the influx of...Continue reading
March 16, 1942. First arrivals at Vancouver’s Hastings Park Manning Pool. All Japanese Canadian mail is censored from this date. About 8,000 Japanese Canadians, most from outside of Vancouver, were shipped to Hastings Park (the official name was Hastings Park Manning Pool) and held there before being transported to camps. Hastings Park closed in September,...
March 4, 1942 Under Order-In-Council P.C. 1665 Japanese Canadians are ordered to turn over property and belongings to the Custodian of Enemy Alien Property as a “protective measure only.” The story of the injustice against Japanese Canadians in 1942 is Canadian history. 80 years ago, about 22,000 Japanese Canadians were forcibly uprooted, dispossessed, incarcerated, and...
February 7, 1942 All male Japanese Canadian citizens between the ages of 18 and 45 are ordered to be removed from a 100-mile-wide zone along the coast of British Columbia. The story of the injustice against Japanese Canadians in 1942 is Canadian history. 80 years ago, about 22,000 Japanese Canadians were forcibly uprooted, dispossessed, incarcerated,...
January 16, 1942 Order-In-Council P.C. 365 creates a 100-mile “protected area” on the coast of British Columbia from which male enemy aliens are excluded. The story of the injustice against Japanese Canadians in 1942 is Canadian history. 80 years ago, about 22,000 Japanese Canadians were forcibly uprooted, dispossessed, incarcerated, and exiled. The action against...