After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the Canadian government passed the War Measures Act, which resulted in the forcible removal of 22,000 Japanese Canadians in British Columbia. As in the U.S., that ugly event was muted in the collective Canadian story of the war; even now, as in the U.S., it is understudied and underacknowledged as a distillation of racism and nationalism without legitimate foundation.

• “Japanese Canadian recounts life in B.C. internment camp” Columbia Valley Pioneer
• “Japanese Internment: British Columbia Wages War Against Japanese Canadians” CBC
• Citylab: “The Town That Forgot About Its Japanese Internment Camp” Citylab
• “Establishing Recognition of Past Injustices: Uses of Archival Records in Documenting the Experience of Japanese Canadians During the Second World War” Archivaria
• National Association of Japanese Canadians
• “The Racism behind Japanese Canadian Internment Can’t Be Forgotten” The Tyee
•  “Japanese Canadian Internment: Prisoners in their own Country” The Canadian Encyclopedia
•  “Japanese Canadian Internment and the Struggle for Redress” Canadian Museum for Human Rights
• “Japanese American Internment” Legion (VIDEO)
• “Japanese Canadian Internment” University of Washington Libraries
• “Rare views of Japanese Canadian internment” National Post
• “Japanese-Canadians weigh a harsh WWII experience — one that surpassed their U.S. cousins” Japan Times
•  “‘East of the Rockies’: Reliving Japanese American internment” Japan Times
• “Unsung Heroes of the Japanese Canadian Internment” Discover Nikkei
• “Enemies Within? Japanese-Canadian Internment 1941-1949” Royal BC Museum
•  “Japanese Canadian History” National Association of Japanese Canadians
• “The Internment of Japanese Canadians” Virtual Museum 

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