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 who were forcibly uprooted would be sent to Hastings Park first before expulsion to internment/incarceration camps.
