WWII Experience - Government Orders

On March 4, 1942 the BC Security Commission was established to carry out the "systematic expulsion of the Japanese from the area within 100 miles of the BC coast. A "Custodian of Enemy Property" was authorized to hold all land and property in trust.

Japanese Canadians reading the removal notice posted outside the New Canadian newspaper office on Powell Street. (photo: Vancouver Public Library)
Meal time at a road camp. Men were paid 25 cents an hour, from which board was deducted. (photo: Public Archives of Canada)
Many nisei men were separated from their families and sent to road and lumber camps, as far east as Schreiber, Ontario. (Photo: Vancouver Public Library)

> "The first order-in-Council"
> Removal of all persons of Japanese Racial Origin

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