Garry Oak Ecosystems have declined to 5% of their pre-contact size. These ecosystems are home to an amazing diversity of life. However, as the ecosystem has been depleted, the native species have suffered. Remaining Garry Oak Ecosystems are home to over 100 species at risk. Click below to learn more about this delicate system.

Global warming is a very real threat to the environment. Dramatic temperature changes have happened naturally in the past (for example, the Ice Age) but these changes occurred over thousands of years. The warming we are experiencing now has happened drastically in the past few decades. National Geographic offers many resources to learn more.

Enacted in August 1914, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian government to suspend and restrain civil autonomy to those who were perceived a threat during times of war.  This included "enemy aliens," many of which were of German and Ukrainian ancestry.  

"Once a German - Always a German!" An anti German propaganda poster created by the United Kingdom in January of 1918.  The poster draws upon anti German sentiment, and wartime German stereotypes to encourage citizens not to buy German goods or hire German workers.

The poster was taken from the "Canadian Museum of History." Source

This image depicts damage done to a storefront in Japantown during the 1907 Anti-Asiant Riots in Vancouver. These riots help to illustrate that racial injustice was nothing new to Japanese-Canadians at the time of internment. (Historica Canada Library and Archives)

A Japanese-Canadian man is forced to hand the keys of his car over to an official.

Japanese-Canadian business owners were forced to surrender their businesses and properties to the Canadian Government. Here Yamato Silks tries to clear out inventory with a sale advertisement (Vancouver Sun)

Fishing boats seized at Annieville dike on the Fraser River, 1942