Japanese Canadian Historic Sites in BC: Journeys of Home
Our visit list theme is Japanese Canadian historic sites in BC. The Dispossession and Internment of Japanese Canadians from 1942-49 is the story of how racism changed the course of a very vibrant and successful community’s history. It also tells the story of the amazing community resilience to overcome adversity and hardships to build the foundations for racial equality and multicultural Canada of today.
Places
East Lillooet Memorial Garden, Japanese Canadian Internment Site
Lillooet, British Columbia
East Lillooet was a Japanese Canadian self-supporting Internment site from 1942-49.
Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall, National Historic Site
Vancouver, British Columbia
Founded in 1906, it was the first and largest Japanese language school before World War II
Sunshine Valley Tashme Museum
Hope, British Columbia
Tashme - Canada's largest Japanese Canadian internment camp during WWII.
Historic Joy Kogawa House
Vancouver, British Columbia
Historic Joy Kogawa House is the 1912 home where author Joy Kogawa lived as a child.
Greenwood Museum and Visitor Centre
Greenwood, British Columbia
Greenwood was the first of 10 Japanese Canadian Internment sites during World War II.
Slocan Extension Roadside Interpretive Sign (Japanese Canadian History)
Slocan, British Columbia
Sign that commemorates the Japanese Canadian internment camps of the lower Slocan Valley
Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre, National Historic Site
New Denver, British Columbia
NIMC tells the story Japanese Canadians forcibly relocated during World War II.
Revelstoke-Sicamous Internment Road Camps Interpretive Sign
British Columbia
Sign that commemorates Road Camps along Highway 1 during the Japanese Canadian Internment.
Langham Cultural Centre
Kaslo, British Columbia
123-year-old Provincial Heritage Site with theatre, galleries, & Japanese Canadian Museum
Road Map
Lillooet, British Columbia to Kaslo, British Columbia
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