The Japanese Internment took place between the years of 1941 and 1949. At the time most of the Japanese population was concentrated in British Columbia, on the West Coast of Canada. The Japanese first immigrated to Canada to work on the rail road in 1900. By 1921 the Japanese population numbered nearly 16000 people and had possessed nearly half of the fishing licenses in British Columbia. In 1941 23000 Japanese were living throughout Canada.

On December 7 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. After the attack there government took all Japanese owned boats, radios, and cameras. After the public pressured the government, and they took action and the government moved all Japanese from a 100 mile wide security strip along the B.C. coast. Later the government gave a further statement

that declared that all people of Japanese origin were considered aliens until the end of World War II.

Although Japan was one of the countries opposing the Allied powers, the Japanese were the only race that was interned. The internment was a act of discrimination, because the Italians and the Germans as well as the Austrians were pretty much left alone. At the same time as 12000 Japanese were being placed in abandoned mining towns and later deported, Austrians, Italians, and Germans were walking freely around Canada with out being asked for much more than identification.

After the internment and the war, the Prime Minister at the time Makenzie King started to deport Japanese back to Japan. 4000 Japanese Canadians were deported before Makenzie King canceled the deportation order in 1947. In many peoples opinion the cancellation orders were 7 years too late.

The internment in the end was useless in the fact that, by interning the Japanese didn't help Canada at all. Some people believed that the internment was a necessary action, because Canada's national security was being threatened by the Japanese who were dwelling near the Pacific Ocean. Other people support thi

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