Japanese-Canadians
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Canada’s smallest city, Greenwood, B.C. marks 125 years by honouring deep-rooted historyIn the early 1900s, Greenwood was home to one of the largest smelters in the British Empire, and times were prosperous, though they were relatively short-lived.CanadaJul 12, 2022
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‘Intangible losses’: B.C. announces $100M redress package for Japanese CanadiansBeginning in 1942, nearly 22,000 Japanese Canadians were forced into internment camps under the War Measures Act, stripped of their houses, belongings and businesses.PoliticsMay 21, 2022
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Japanese Canadians push for apology from B.C. government over internment campsThe federal government apologized in 1988 for its racism against "enemy aliens'' after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941.CanadaJul 21, 2019
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