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Jul 12, 20192 min read
Day 1: Hastings Park
Between March 16 and September 30, 1942, approximately 8,000 Japanese Canadians passed through Hastings Park, awaiting deportation to the...
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BC Bus Tour
Jul 12, 20192 min read
Day 1: Tashme
By November 1942, the population in the camp of Tashme was 2,636. Despite it being the largest camp in the interior, it was the last camp...
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Jul 11, 20193 min read
Day 2: Greenwood
Greenwood, a small abandoned copper mining town of 200 residents, became the first site of Japanese Canadian internment on April 21,...
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Jul 10, 20192 min read
Day 3: Lemon Creek
Lemon Creek is located 9km south of Slocan City. The creek supplied the drinking water for the camp, rainbow trout, and a place to swim...
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BC Bus Tour
Jul 9, 20192 min read
Day 3: New Denver
The first arrivals of Japanese Canadians came to New Denver on May 21, 1942, to live on what once was an apple orchard. In 1942, the...
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Jul 8, 20192 min read
Day 4: Kaslo
500 residents presided in Kaslo by early 1942. By that October, an additional 964 Japanese Canadians arrived, making Kaslo the second...
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BC Bus Tour
Jul 8, 20192 min read
Day 5: East Lillooet
The self-supporting site of East Lillooet, population 300 Japanese Canadians, was racially segregated from the rest of the town. The...
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