Monument

The Japanese Canadian Monument, located steps away from the British Columbia legislative precinct, is set close to where Japanese immigrants first stepped ashore in the 1800s. The Monument features a 300-foot-long wall engraved with the names of nearly 22,000 individuals who were forcibly uprooted, incarcerated, and stripped of their livelihoods, properties, and homes in 1942, standing as a permanent record of systemic injustice, where race, economics and power all played a role. The wall also contains the names of 3,000 children born into exile and internment between 1942 and April 1, 1949, when Japanese Canadians were granted full citizenship rights, including freedom of movement.