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| | Title
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Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War [8 books]
(37280) |
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| | Physical
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160 pieces
| | Copyrighted
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2011
| | Distributor
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James Lorimer
(1595)
| | Country
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Canada
| | Audience
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Intermediate, Junior High, Senior High (IJS)
| | Collection
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Booking Library
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Righting Canada's wrongs
(1800)
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| | Synopsis
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This book is an illustrated history of the wartime internment of
Japanese Canadian residents of British Columbia. At the time when
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Japanese Canadians numbered well over
20,000. From the first arrivals in the late nineteenth century, they
had taken up work in many parts of BC, established communities, and
become part of the Canadian society even though they faced racism and
prejudice in many forms.
With war came wartime hysteria. Japanese Canadian residents of BC were
rounded up, their homes and property seized, and forced to move to
internment camps with inadequate housing, water, and food. Men and
older boys went to road camps while some families ended up on farms
where they were essentially slave labour. Eventually, after years of
pressure, the Canadian government admitted that the internment was
wrong and apologized for it.
This book uses a wide range of historical photographs, documents, and
images of museum artefacts to tell the story of the internment. The
impact of these events is underscored by first-person narrative from
five Japanese Canadians who were themselves youths at the time their
families were forced to move to the camps.
| | Author
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Fukawa, Masako ; Hickman, Pamela
| | Dimensions
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28 cm.
| ISBN#
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1552778533
| | Pub. Loc.
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Toronto, ON
| | Contents
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8 Books ; 1 Teacher's guide ; 1 Points of Inquiry pamphlet.
| | Notes
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Theme: Inquiry
| | Parts
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8 books ; 2 guides all in a 17 x 29 x 43 cm. plastic bin.
| | Stmt Resp
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Pamela Hickman , Masako Fukawa
| | Guide
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Guide Included
| | Subjects
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Canadian government policies;
Discrimination;
Inquiry-based learning;
Social Studies;
Social justice;
Canadian(CK);
Diversity(CK);
Japanese Canadians—Forced removal and incarceration, 1942-1945;
World War—1939-1945—Canada;
Concentration camps—Canada
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INQ 6-12
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