Japanese Canadian Internment
Searching for Encyclopedias or Reference Books?
The Canadian Encyclopedia: Japanese Canadians
The Canadian Encyclopedia: Prejudice and Discrimination
The Canadian Encyclopedia: Internment
Searching for Books?
Books about the evacuation and relocation of Japanese Canadians
Books with the personal stories and memoirs of Japanese Canadians who were relocated
Books about the history of civil rights in Canada for Japanese Canadians
Searching for Audiovisual material?
Movies about the evacuation and relocation of Japanese Canadians
CBC-TV News in Review: September 2003 - The Asahi Baseball Team remembered
Searching for Magazine, Newspaper and Journal Articles?
Using Information Databases, you will find articles published in magazines, newspapers and academic journals that you can’t find using the Internet. All our databases are listed on our website but we recommend you try the ones below first.
*If you are using a computer that isn’t in the library, you’ll be asked to type in your library card number.
- Click on advanced search.
- Type in JAPANESE -- Canada -- Evacuation & relocation, 1942-1945 and choose SU subject terms in the select a field box.
- Click on search.
- Click on Advanced to do an advanced search.
- Try these search phrases "Japanese Canadians" AND "World War II" or "Japanese Canadians" AND "Reparations"
- Limit to “full-text documents only” .
- On the results screen use the tabs labeled scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers to see results from those sources.
Also try
Canada’s Heritage from 1844 (the Globe and Mail)
See all Information Databases.
What are Information Databases?
Recommended Websites
5 Generations: a virtual history of Japanese Canadians
Information about the Internment camps, prairie camps, Ontario work camps and the resettlement “east of the Rockies” initiative. There are also recordings of Japanese Canadians describing their experiences during WWII.
Japanese Canadian Timeline
A detailed timeline of events that includes the specific laws and orders that the Canadian government used to support the Japanese Canadian internment and resettlement during WWII.
Multicultural Canada: an encyclopedia of Canada’s peoples
Select "Japanese"to find information on the background and context for the Japanese internment policy of World War II.
National Association of Japanese Canadians: Japanese Canadians Then and Now
National Film Board: Enemy Alien
Enemy Alien is one of several documentaries the NFB has made about the internment.
The Politics of Racism
The history of the internment of Japanese Canadians.
Relocation to Redress: The internment of the Japanese Canadians (CBC archives)
This website has video footage and photographs, information and interviews as well as related websites for more information.
