No immediate impact after Pearl Harbor

Building Japanese style fishing boats in Canada Japanese fishermen town in Steveston, Canada Grandmother convinced his mother to return to Canada No immediate impact after Pearl Harbor Treatment of Japanese fishermen in Canada during World War II Government's permission to publish Japanese newspaper in Canada during World War II Japanese newspaper supported by Canadian government during World War II Sneaking out of the Hastings Park camp during World War II Fire started by illegal sake still at the camp Building a Japanese rock garden inside an internment camp Government urged Japanese Canadians to go to Japan Japanese Canadians get the right to vote in 1949 Government sold Japanese Canadian properties for little money Developing senior housing for Japanese Canadians

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I didn't think anything of it (Pearl Harbor) myself at the time. It didn't, it didn't mean... immediately, it did not register in me that there was that big a change. I mean, we had been at war already, it was, maybe the war had extended but it didn't, I knew that it would mean it was... my brother -- not my brother, but my uncle in Japan was a soldier. He was an officer in the Japanese Imperial Army at that time, and I knew about him being there, so I knew that that would mean he was going to be fighting against the Allies, which included Canada and now the United States was joining the Allies. It wasn't like it was, like immediately I knew all what it meant. I didn't know all, in all the little bits and pieces of what was happening. I didn't even know what effect it would have on me at that time.

Date: July 25 & 26, 2006
Location: Washington, US
Interviewer: Tom Ikeda
Contributed by: Denshō: The Japanese American Legacy Project.

Canada World War II