In this picture we see a detention camps in the interior of the province. In early 1942, 23,000 Japanese-Canadians were removed from the coastline of British Columbia They were placed in the edition camps as the Canadian government saw them as the enemy because in September 27, 1940, the Tripartite Treaty between Japan, Germany and Italy included Japan in the war with Canada which made many Canadians feel uncoftrable as there was a large number of Japanese people living on the west cost .

This was important at the time because Japanese people were the "enemy" at the time and the war measures act allowed the Canadian governmental put the Japanese people into these camps and take away most of their right and not allowing them to enlist in the war effort and sending them back to japan beacuse they were seen
The enemy . 23,000 Japanese-Canadians were removed from the coastline of British ColumbiaThey were placed in detention camps in the interior of the province 14,000 of the Japanese-Canadians had been born in Canada, with many not even speaking Japanese

This is still important and significant today as The treatment of Japanese-Canadians was a dark cloud on Canada’s government and the camps that Japanese Canadians were put into were very similar to the ones the nazis used for the Jewish (not the death camps but concentration) an racism to Asian people was huge .In 1988, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney issued a formal apology to all Japanese-Canadians who were mistread during the Second World War .Reparations and compensation was provided and we see this was morally wrong and the government has learned to treat people as equals from this dark cloud on Canadian history .