Is it true that Canadian government also had Japanese Nationals Internment Camps?
The 24,000 Japanese-Canadians, including some 7,400 naturalized Canadian citizens, were under similar “controls” as the United States had imposed. There were about 22,000 Japanese in British Columbia mostly along the coast or on the off-shore islands, particularly Vancouver Island. Of this number about 3,000 lived inland. Those within 100 miles of the coast were evacuated to Kaslo, BC then assigned to Relocation Centers in hastily reconditioned “ghost towns” in the Kootenay Lake and Slocam Valley areas, as well as in a new center called “Tashme.” About 2,500 were sent to Lethbridge, Alberta to work on sugar beet ranches which were being developed to relieve the acute sugar shortage caused by the war. Situations for Japanese-Canadians were generally similar to those in the United States except that the higher latitudes of Canada meant colder winters. The heaviest snowfall in decades covered the mountains and plains causing much distress. Canadian officials assigned to supervise the inte
