Wartime internment and Japanese Canadian redress
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The guide acknowledges wartime injustices: internment of people classified as enemy aliens during the First World War, and the forced relocation and dispossession of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War.
Scope & context
Independent citizenship-study support. Read the cited official sources; this is not an official question bank or a guarantee of a test result.
More context
The First World War section discusses internment affecting many people of Ukrainian and other Austro-Hungarian origins. The Second World War section describes forced relocation and the sale of Japanese Canadian property. Canada formally apologized and offered redress for the latter in 1988.
These histories should not be confused with a finding that the affected communities were collectively guilty of wrongdoing. They are important to understanding civil liberties, discrimination and the later expansion of rights, alongside the country’s military contributions.
Sources behind this record
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Canada’s History; sections and tables identified in the research record