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At the turn of the century, there were 4,738 Japanese in Canada, of which 97% were in BC. [6] In 2001, 44% of all Japanese Canadians lived in British Columbia, accounted for about 1% of the total population of the province. [13] That year, 27,000 people of Japanese origin, or 32% of the total Japanese Canadian population, lived in Vancouver.
The Liberal government also deported able-bodied Japanese-Canadian labourers to camps near fields and orchards, such as BC's Okanagan Valley. The Japanese-Canadian labourers were used as a solution to a shortage of farm workers. [62] This obliterated any Japanese competition in the fishing sector.
Japanese Canadians (日系カナダ人, Nikkei Kanadajin, French: Canadiens japonais) are Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Canadians are mostly concentrated in Western Canada, especially in the province of British Columbia, which hosts the largest Japanese community in the country with the majority of them living in and around Vancouver.
Sandon was the first fully electrified town in BC. The Silversmith Powerhouse (1897) was the second hydroelectricity plant in Western Canada - after Nelson - and is the oldest continuous producer in Western Canada, with the current equipment - originally a 1905 installation in a City of Vernon plant, and installed at Sandon in 1916.
Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre is a museum that preserves and interprets one of ten Canadian concentration camps where more than 27,000 Japanese Canadians were incarcerated by the Canadian government during and after World War II (1942 to 1949). [2] The centre was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2007. [2]
In 1943, due to changed regulations, the men joined their families at the internment camps. The interned Japanese Canadians were employed by the BC Security Commission and the Federal Department of Labour. Most Japanese Canadian internees that were not specialists were paid $0.25 per hour, and road camp workers were paid $0.35.
Japanese Canadian Timeline from arrival of first Japanese person in 1877 (Japanese Canadian National Museum). History of Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall, established 1906. History of Vancouver Buddhist Church, established 1906. 100th Anniversary of Anti-Asian Riots, 7 September 1907 (2007 Anniversaries of Change).
In 1942, 1,200 Japanese Canadians were sent to Greenwood as part of the Japanese Canadian internment. [2] Among those interned at Greenwood were Isamu and Fumiko Kariya and their son Yasi, the grandparents and uncle of NHL star and Hockey Hall of Fame member Paul Kariya; his father Tetsuhiko (T.K.) was born in internment. [3]