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Japanese Canadian passengers on the S.S. General M.C. Meigs in Vancouver in the summer of 1946 as Canadian officials look on. The U.S. Army transport ship was used by the Canadian government to deport nearly 4,000 Japanese Canadians to war-torn Japan after the Second World War. Many were Canadian citizens who had never been to Japan and did not speak the language. (CP Photo)

Canada’s exile of Japanese Canadian citizens: A shameful 80‑year anniversary few remember

Jordan Stanger-Ross, University of Victoria and Eric M. Adams, University of Alberta

Canada’s expulsion of thousands of Japanese Canadians 80 years ago offers lessons in a world of sharpening borders, insecurity and talk of who does and does not belong in a national community.

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