The Japanese Children

 

Japanese Canadian children being escorted by Vancouver policeman
VPL Accession Number: 1345, 1942

[Children looking in the window of a Japanese store, closed after the relocation of Japanese nationals] - Dec 1942.

CVA 1184-1537 City of Vancouver Archives Where have they gone? One evening Japanese children were escorted home by Vancouver police at curfew and the next they were sent to internment camps in the interior of B.C. Their cars and trucks were impounded at Hastings Park and sold. Among those in the camp were Japanese Canadian veterans who had served in World War I.