Internment of Japanese Canadians
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internment-of-japanese-canadians-207-13306226
title:
Internment of Japanese Canadians
text:
From 1942 to 1949, Canada forcibly relocated and incarcerated over 22,000 Japanese Canadians—comprising over 90% of the total Japanese Canadian population—from British Columbia in the name of "national security". The majority were Canadian citizens by birth and were targeted based on their ancestry. This decision followed the events of the Japanese Empire's war in the Pacific against the Western Allies, such as the invasion of Hong Kong, the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the Fall of Sing
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Period of internment of Japanese people in Canada
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Canadians
date created:
2004-09-19T15:54:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T03:11:30Z
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