text: Post-war Oftentimes after internment, families could not be reunited. Many mothers were left with children, but no husband. Furthermore, communities were impossible to rebuild. The lack of community led to an even more intensified gap between the generations. Children had no one with whom to speak Japanese outside the home and as a result they rarely learned the language fluently. This fracturing of community also led to a lack of Japanese cultural foundation and many children lost a strong connection with their culture. Mothers had also learned to be bolder in their own way and were now taking on wage-earning jobs, which meant that they had less time to teach their children about Japanese culture and traditions. The internment camps forever changed the way of Japanese-Canadian life.
  Camp locations and relocation sites
  Kootenays region of British Columbia:
  Bay Farm
  Greenwood
  Kaslo
  Lemon Creek
  New Denver
  Popoff
  Rosebery
  Sandon
  Slocan City
  Elsewhere in British Columbia:
  Bridge River (South Shalalth)
  McGillivray Falls
  Minto City
  East Lillooet
  Tashme (now Sunshine Valley)
  Ontario:
  Chatham
  Petawawa
  Schreiber
  St. Thomas
  Toronto
  Elsewhere in Canada:
  Alberta and Manitoba — sugar beet farms
  Kananaskis Country, Alberta
  Dispossession of Japanese Canadians
  The dispossession began in December 1941 with the seizure of fishing vessels owned by Japanese Canadians, and eventually led to the loss of homes, farms, businesses and smaller belongings such as family heirlooms.
  Ian MacKenzie, the federal Minister of Pensions and National Health and British Columbia representative in Cabinet, was a political advocate for the dispossession of the property of Japanese Canadians. He campaigned to exclude Asians from the province of British Columbia, saying to a local newspaper in 1922 "Economically we cannot combat with them; racially we cannot assimilate them...we must exclude them from our midst and prohibit them from owning land."