Enemies within?: Japanese-Canadian Internment 1941-1949
by Lindsay EppFrom the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 until years after the war had ended, Japanese-Canadians were forced from their homes and into internment camps, most of these in British Columbia.
![“From Racism to Redress”](https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/themes/learning-portal/img/link-placeholder.jpg)
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CRRF document outlining the Japanese-Canadian experience from 1897 to the Mulroney government's redress in 1988.
![Central Kootenay Internment Camp](https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/i_60959-480x360.gif)
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![“By Turns Poetic”](https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/themes/learning-portal/img/link-placeholder.jpg)
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Roy Miki, prominent Canadian poet and scholar (currently a professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University) describes the long process of redress in "By Turns Poetic".
From Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity. Edited by Ashok Mathur, Jonathan Dewar, and Mike DeGagne. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2011.
From Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity. Edited by Ashok Mathur, Jonathan Dewar, and Mike DeGagne. Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2011.
![Japanese-Canadian fishing boats seized](https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/c_07293-480x360.gif)
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Fishing boats seized at Annieville dike on the Fraser River, 1942
![Forced To Close](https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/5683817-475x360.jpg)
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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)
![Handing over the keys](https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/5728766-480x360.jpg)
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A Japanese-Canadian man is forced to hand the keys of his car over to an official.
![Decades of Prejudice: Vancouver Anti-Asian Riots, 1907](https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/64ad6c53-ce0d-4c08-bd3a-6c81d871301d_thumbnail_600_600-480x360.png)
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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)
![Landscapes of Injustice](https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/themes/learning-portal/img/entry-placeholder.jpg)
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