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WWII Experience - Mass Uprooting
Shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, some 22,000 men, women and children of Japanese descent were branded "enemy aliens" in their own country. Seventy five percent were Canadians by birth or naturalized citizens but the Government of Canada considered them dangerous to the country because of their racial origin. With the passage of Orders-in-Council under the War Measures Act, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) denied the Japanese of their basic and human rights.
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