Protest Letters

Protest Letters

Historical Photos Part 1

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Truck: Trucks and trains were used to ship Japanese Canadians to internment camps. The RCMP directed the loading. Women, children and the elderly were separated from their husbands and fathers who sere sent to work on road camps near the Rockies on the BC/Alberta border.

Truck: Trucks and trains were used to ship Japanese Canadians to internment camps. The RCMP directed the loading. Women, children and the elderly were separated from their husbands and fathers who sere sent to work on road camps near the Rockies on the BC/Alberta border.

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Slocan: Families lived in tents while waiting for shacks to be built.

Slocan

Lemon Creek: Mrs. Take Akiyama carrying water in Lemon Creek, BC, an internment camp, 1943.

Lemon Creek

Japanese 'settlement', East Kootenays.

Japanese 'settlement'

Family in front of an internment shack. In many internment camps, laudry was done in community washrooms at a designated time. There were cold water taps only. Hot water had to be heated on he stove in the communal kitchen and carried to the tubs. Outside also were the outhouses with their pungent odor of lime.

Family in front of an internment shack.

Tashme, BC: Families sharing a kitchen. Each shack had two or three families living together. All other facilities were shared by many families. Cooking utensils included large pots for cooking rice and kettles to boil water for tea and to do the laundry. Tableware would include Japanese style teacups and chopsticks along with western-style forks, spoons, and knives.

Tashme, BC

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Fumi Tamagi and three others picking Sugar Beets; Shaughnessy?, AB 1943. Many families chose to go to work as labourers in southern Alberta instead of being interned. The living conditions were poor, but moving to Alberta meant that families could stay together.

Fumi Tamagi and three others picking Sugar Beets

Outdoor photography of the presentation of the 1944 May Queen and Court; Tashme, BC. Even in internment, Japanese Canadian families tried to keep life as normal as possible, including continuing with celebrations and festivals.

Outdoor photography of the presentation of the 1944 May Queen and Court

Two young women playing checkers at Slocan Lake.

Two young women playing checkers at Slocan Lake.

Emi and Matsu Furakawa, Minto, BC, 1942. Families tried to supplement their diet with fresh vegetables. Traditional Japanese food was not available except for rice which was shipped from Texas. Shoyu (soya sauce) and tofu (bean cake) were made in some camps and distributed to other camps. Most camp stores stocked only dry food products and canned goods. Steamed rice, wieners with soya sauce and vegetables from the garden made up a meal for many internees.

Emi and Matsu Furakawa

Nuns with children, 1944. In some internment camps, children attended classes held by Roman Catholic nuns. The local public schools would not accept Japanese Canadian students. In Lillooet, parents built their own school. High school students completed their schooling through correspondence. Parents had to pay $9 per course or $56 per year per student. This was a lot of money when a family earned $54 a month to pay for food and clothing.

Nuns with children, 1944.

Burial of Masano Shirakawa at Angler, Prisoner of War Camp in Ontario, 1942. Any internees who did not obey in any way were sent away to Angler. Reasons for confinement included: not having a travel permit, disobeying the curfew, or resisting the order to leave the West Coast. All prisoners wore a uniform with a red circle on their back so that they were an easy target for the guards. 700 Japanese Canadian men were confined.

Burial of Masano Shirakawa

Canadian Nisei Veterans. Japanese Canadians were denied the right to fight for Canada. After the British army came to recruit them, the Canadian government allowed 150 nisei (ni-say) or secnod generation Japanese Canadians to join the Canadian army. Many served as Canadian Intelligence Corps as transloators. During World War I, some Japanese Canadians enlisted to fight for Canada in an attempt to get the right to vote. Not until 1949 were all Japanese Canadians given the democratic right to vote.

Canadian Nisei Veterans.

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