In 1945, Canadians of Japanese descent were told they could not return to their homes on the B.C. coast. Instead, they were expected to move east of the Rockies or sign papers indicating they would go to Japan. For families already uprooted and dispossessed, returning to the communities they had known before the war was not an option. Source: Department of Labour, Notice to All Persons of Japanese Racial Origin Now Resident in British Columbia, March 12, 1945. Nikkei National Museum, Sunahara Collection, 2018.16.3.1.15.
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