What is the Internment of Japanese-Canadians?
From what I’ve read online, the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II was done for the same reason as the internment of Japanese Americans in the US. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, there was fear that citizens of Japanese descent held more regard for Japan than the country they were born in and would aid Japan in the war effort. It’s interesting that German Americans & I’m sure German Canadians were not rounded up en mass and put in camps. I think that speaks volumes as to how people of European descent versus Asian descent were viewed by the Canadian & US governments.
