And Life Goes On: Japanese Canadians, Memory and Life after Internment Presented by: Toronto Public Library Date: November 5, 2013 Event Time(s):06:30 PM to 08:00 PMWebsite: www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT138861&R=EVT138861 Phone:416-393-7746 Costs: Free In World War II, some 23,000 Japanese Canadians were uprooted from their homes, mostly in Vancouver and the British Columbia Lower Mainland, and shipped to internment, prisoner-of-war or labour camps. Some were in the interior of B. C., others in Alberta and even Ontario. After the war, the Canadian government offered a ""choice"": either deportation to war-devasted Japan or forced removal east of the Rockies. A few thousand did go to Japan, but most chose the latter. In her talk, Dr. Sugiman will draw on oral history interviews with 75 Nisei women and men who currently reside in Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, and various parts of British Columbia. Location:Lillian H. Smith Library 239 College Street College and Spadina Map to this event Public Transit:TTC College streetcar from College subway station west to Spadina TTC College streetcar from Queen's Park subway station west to Spadina TTC Harbourfront streetcar from Union to Spadina then Spadina streetcar north to College TTC Spadina streetcar south from Spadina subway station to College TTC Trip Planner Downtown History, Seminars/Workshops.
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239 College Street