Japanese Canadian Monument : Japanese Canadian Monument Park

Okage sama de for all that you have done

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In 1942, nearly 22,000 Japanese Canadians were stripped of their homes, property, and businesses and forcibly removed from their homes and communities on British Columbiaʼs coast. The majority had been born in BC. Many never returned.

This database lists Japanese Canadians by their places of uprooting in 1942. It also includes over 3,000 children born during the upheaval. This information is obtained from primary source documents. The Japanese Canadian Monument in Victoria, BC honours these uprooted Japanese Canadians by name—listed by the 195 communities where they lived in 1942.

This database includes those forcibly removed from coastal BC and other designated areas, as well as children born after the uprooting and before restrictions on Japanese Canadians were finally lifted in 1949, four years after the warʼs end.

It was a vision to honour everyone by name, where, despite this history of the shattering of community, all families are able to find their loved ones and connect them to their place of uprooting. By honouring our people, most of whose names have been lost to time, we reconnect their names to the communities we once called home, seeking healing across generations.