BC Redress Resources
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Read the report: Recommendations for Redressing Historical Wrongs Against Japanese Canadians in BC and the complete Appendices of the Recommendations for Redressing Historical Wrongs Against Japanese Canadians in BC Community Consultations Report
Click this link to view or download the complete report, Recommendations for Redressing Historical Wrongs Against Japanese Canadians in BC Community (PDF, 7 MB)
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Click this link to view or download the complete Appendices of the Recommendations for Redressing Historical Wrongs Against Japanese Canadians in BC Community Consultations Report (PDF, 9.2 MB)
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The BC Government and the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians (1941-1949)
In 2000, The Times-Colonist in Victoria, BC published a six-part series by John Price. Titled The BC Government and the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians (1941-1949), the series lays out in precise detail the steps the government of British Columbia took to dispossess, incarcerate and exile the 22,000 people of Japanese descent who called British Columbia home.
Swimming Upstream
Swimming Upstream, a video by Judge Maryka Omatsu, powerfully documents the Japanese Canadians' case vs the BC government for its policies promoting ethnic cleansing, dispossession and community destruction.
Writing Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Protest Letters of the 1940s
During the 1940s, the Canadian government seized and sold the property of Japanese Canadians without their consent. Based on a collection of more than 300 letters protesting this injustice, Writing Wrongs brings to life the story of Japanese-Canadian internment and dispossession during the Second World War, along with a powerful and moving exploration of citizenship, justice and equal rights.
Hastings Park 1942
In early 1942, after Canada declared War on Japan, the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) grounds at Hastings Park in east Vancouver were used to temporarily house Japanese Canadians who were being uprooted from the BC Coast. Over 8000 were detained in the exhibition buildings and stables at Hastings Park before being sent to internment sites in the BC interior or to work camps across the country.
Challenging Racist British Columbia: 120 Years and Counting
150 Years and Counting (150YC) is a new open-access, multi-media resource that documents how this recent cycle of anti-racist activism is part of a broader history of Indigenous, Black and other racialized communities challenging white supremacy for over 150 years – particularly since 1871 when BC joined Canada. Co-authored by activists & scholars from diverse communities, this resource will assist anti-racist educators, teachers, scholars, and policymakers in piercing the silences that too often have let racism fester in communities, corporations, and governments. 150YC is co-produced by the UVIC History project Asian Canadians on Vancouver Island: Race, Indigeneity and the Transpacific and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – BC Office.