1. Japanese Internment “The Yellow Peril” WWII in Canada

4. Canadian POWs in Hong Kong

5. Almost 2000 Canadians attacked Hong Kong in 1941 50 000 Japanese troops armed with superior weapons attacked

6. 1672 Canadians were captured and sent to a POW camp in Japan

7. The prisoners, treated inhumanely, suffered from disease and starvation.

8. In 1998 our own Canadian government compensated our Hong Kong veterans $24 000 each

9. Back in Canada – War Measures Act invoked again

10. Fear of Japanese Canadians working as spies resulted in the internment of 22 000

11. Japanese Canadians were seized, held in barns at Hastings Park then moved into BC’s interior

13. The gov’t confiscated Japanese property, possessions were auctioned off and owners received nothing Anti-Japanese marches in Vancouver convinced 750 people to move voluntarily

14. 1945 – Japanese Canadians were forced to either move back to Japan or permanently settle east of the Rocky Mountains

15. 1988 – our Gov’t apologized and compensated those still Alive $21 000 each and restored Canadian citizenship to those deported 3964 Japanese Canadians were deported, 2000 of them Canadian citizens