CA-K313Language & names

The Vancouver Japanese Language School

The Vancouver Japanese Language School and Hall on Alexander Street, Vancouver, photographed in 2016. Vancouver Japanese School and Hall · Cordovanorth · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.

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The Vancouver Japanese Language School, in the city’s Japantown, was the first and largest Japanese language school in Canada, and its 1928 Art Deco building is a rare surviving interwar language school. Of the thousands of properties the federal government confiscated from Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, it is one of very few known buildings returned to its owners after internment.

Scope & context

The school and its building, not the full history of the internment.

Sources behind this record

Vancouver Japanese Language School National Historic Site ↗

Parks Canada

Description of historic place; Heritage value