Resource Library
The resource library is designed to enhance the lesson activities, create enrichment opportunities for students, and extend the depth of the lessons. The library contains all of the images, source material, audio clips, and films contained in the lesson packages. It also includes bonus archival materials. To aid student inquiry and extension, the library follows the same chronology as the lessons. Additional materials will be added to the site over time; check back for new and exciting materials.
Explore this History Further
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Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre
https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/ -
Tashme Historical Project
http://tashme.ca/ -
Hastings Park 1942
http://hastingspark1942.ca/ -
Densho – Japanese American Incarceration and Internment
https://densho.org/ -
Japanese Canadian History
https://japanesecanadianhistory.net/ -
National Association of Japanese Canadians
http://najc.ca/japanese-canadian-history/ -
Virtual Museum Canada
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca -
National Film Board
https://www.nfb.ca/
Going Deeper
Lesson 1: Emigration, Settlement, and Aspiration
In this section you can find records that relate to the families highlighted in the lesson activities, including the Information Gap and Post Card activities. Additional images, audio clips and other source materials are also located here.
Photos
These archival photographs and documents offer a glimpse into Japanese Canadian life in British Columbia before 1942.
Audio
In these oral history clips, Japanese Canadians remember their lives from before 1942. Find clips that relate to the families in the Write a Postcard
Audio clip of Susumu Tabata
Audio clip of Tadao Wakabayashi
Audio clip of Eiko (Maikawa) Ogino
Audio clip of Takako Kagetsu Huang
Audio clip of Terry Nakamura part 1
Audio clip of Terry Nakamura part 2
Audio clip of Nancy Morishita
Audio clip of Masue-Tagashira
Video Resource
These videos offer a window into life for Japanese Canadians in British Columbia before 1942. Find videos that relate to the families highlighted in the Write a Postcard Activity.
Film clip of Bill Hashizumi
Film clip of Powell Street neighbhourhood
Film clip of Henry Shimizu
An educational film about tuberculosis
Lesson 2: War and National Security
In this section you can find records that relate to the lesson activities, including the Spotlight, Perspective Taking 101 and Tug-for-Truth activities. Additional images, audio clips and other source materials are also located here.
Photos
These archival photographs and documents offer a glimpse into Japanese Canadian life in British Columbia before 1942.
Audio
Listen to Japanese Canadians recall the moments of uprooting in 1942.
Audio clip of Elmer Hara
Uprooting by Jean Ikeda-Douglas
Audio clip of Mary Kimoto
Audio clip of Yoshiko Hasegawa
Video Resource
These videos offer a glimpse into the uprooting and internment of Japanese Canadians in 1942.
Film Clip of Life in an Internment Camp
Lesson 3: Dispossession
Explore archival photographs and documents that document the dispossession of Japanese Canadians. Read the letters they wrote and how officials responded. In this section you can find records that relate to the families highlighted in the lesson activities, including the Think About It, Viewpoints on Dispossession, Voices of Protest, A Promise Broken, and Community Responds activities. Additional images, audio clips and other source materials are also located here.
Photos Section 1
Japanese Canadians protested the forced sale of their property.
Photos Section 2
These archival documents and photographs capture moments from the dispossession of Japanese Canadians.
Photos Section 3
After the uprooting, government officials photographed and catalogued Japanese Canadians’ real estate and homes. Then, they sold them all without the owner’s consent. Explore some of the photos here.
Audio
In these oral history clips, Japanese Canadians recall how their families reacted when they learned that the government had sold their properties.
Audio Clip of Yeiji Inouye
Audio Clip of Betty Toyota Part 1
Audio Clip of Betty Toyota Part 2
Lesson 4: Legacies of Dispossession
In this section you can find official records, photographs, audio and video clips that relate to the families highlighted in the lesson activities, including the Where is Home, Letters from Tashme and Shaken Identity activities. Additional images, audio clips and other source materials are also located here.
Photos
Explore photographs from the years that followed the dispossession.
Audio
Loss is complex. It ripples through families, shaping how they see themselves and their history. In time, new generations face the past. Listen to Japanese Canadians’ stories of loss and living with the legacies of dispossession.
Audio clip of Sachiko Okuda
Audio clip of Leslie Uyeda
Audio clip of Vivian Wakabayashi Rygnestad
Audio clip of Mary Kitagawa
Audio clip of Midori Bruns
Audio clip of Yoshiaki Nagao
Audio clip of Terry Watada
Audio clip of Emma Nishimura
Audio clip of Mark Sakamoto
Audio clip of Kathy Shimizu
Videos
As the president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians, Arthur Miki led the campaign for Redress in the 1980s. It was a community effort. Listen to Art describe the challenges and significance of the 1988 Redress Agreement.