Cafe Historique: Who Forced the Sale of Japanese-Canadian-Owned Property during the Second World War?

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Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
Doors open at 5:30pm. Lecture at 7:00pm.

Dr Jordan Stanger-Ross
Department of History
University of Victoria

In the spring of 1942, when Japanese Canadians in coastal British Columbia were uprooted from their homes and interned, the Canadian government assured them that their property would be protected for the duration of the war and then released back to them. A year later, however, officials resolved to sell everything they owned, contributing to material losses that would, in today’s currency, amount to at least one billion dollars. This talk analyzes the forced sale of Japanese-Canadian-owned property by examining three individuals: federal politician Ian Mackenzie, bureaucrat Glenn McPherson, and Kishizo Kimura, a Japanese Canadian who participated in the administering the sales. In addition to detailing the origins of the policy, this talk asks: what do we gain by trying to understand the perspectives of the people who perpetrated historical injustice?

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