why did the japenese people living on the west coast get exported from canada in ww2 during 1942?

Question

to get 12 points you have to explain what the japese people destroyed

arabs werent a threat in the 40s answer the question first guy/girl

oops it was a good answer didnt read person 1

oops it was a good answer didnt read person 1

nice job spades you get the points

oops i meant the seond person
i screw up w/ names

Answer 1

On the west coast amid fears of a Japanese attack on Canada in the days following Pearl Harbour. Canada passed through legislation first banning ethnic Japanese fisherman from operating off coastal BC for fears that they were involve in espionage. Most companies and organizations followed suit and fired all their Japanese employees. Shortly after that a mandatory day light only curfew was instated for all Ethnic Japanese and they were forced into internment camps allowing the governing powers to monitor activity.

Following the war the Japanese were released, however none of the possessions, including business, home, and savings were returned. They were no longer permitted to reside in BC and were force to chose between Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba.

The Japanese did nothing to Canada, there was no attack. Japanese Internment was an act of pure fear which destroyed the lives of thousands of people.

Answer 2

The Japanese were not exported from Canada. They were moved from the B.C. coast to internment camps in the B.C. interior and in Alberta.

These people did not destroy anything. They were moved because of the west coast of Canada's proximity to Japan and the probability of a Japanese attack. The Canadian government was paranoid that if the Japanese did indeed attack, the Japanese-Canadian citizens would turn on Canada and side with Japan.

The RCMP even tried to tell the government that the Japanese living in BC were of no threat, but the military and the government did not listen.
Instead, they shipped away thousands of people (many who were born Canadians), to live in little camps, just like prisoners of war, and sold all of their stuff by public auction.

Now, the government has to pay retribution to these people and their families because of their little "mistake".

Answer 3

There was never a single incident of sabotage attributed to Japanese Americans or Canadians. They were sent into the interior due to racist paranoia and and fear. As for whats NOT being done to Muslims as a result to 9-11, all I can say is perhaps we learned from our mistake? I would like to think so but I doubt it.

Answer 4

It was the first time that north america was attacted...The government was new to the whole fear thing for their people and really didn't know what to do, I really can't say if it did any good or if it was the right choice but they felt they had to move fast before more north americans where attacked.

Answer 5

Following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbour, members of the non-Japanese population of British Columbia, including municipal government offices, local newspapers and businesses called for the internment of the Japanese. In British Columbia, there were fears that some Japanese who worked in the fishing industry were charting the coastline for the Japanese navy, acting as spies on Canada's military. Military and RCMP authorities felt the public's fears were unwarranted, but the public opinion quickly pushed the government to act. [1] Canadian Pacific Railway fired all its Japanese workers, and most other Canadian companies did the same. [1] Japanese fish boats were first confined to port, and eventually, the Canadian navy seized 1,200 of these vessels.[1]


A R.C.N. officer questions Japanese-Canadian fishermen while confiscating their boat.In January 1942, a "protected" 100-mile wide strip up the Pacific coast was created, and any men of Japanese descent between the ages of 18 and 45 were removed and taken to road camps in the British Columbian interior, to sugar beet projects on the Prairies, or to internment in a POW camp in Ontario. Most people of the 22,000 Japanese descent who lived in British Columbia were naturalized or native-born citizens.[1] Those unwilling to live in internment camps or relocation centers faced the possibility of deportation to Japan. On February 24, 1942 an Order-in-Council passed under the War Measures Act giving the federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin."[2]

In early March, all ethnic Japanese people were ordered out of the protected area, and a daytime-only curfew was imposed on them. Some of those brought inland were kept in animal stalls for the Pacific National Exhibition at Hastings Park, in Vancouver for months.[1] They were then moved to ten internment camps in or near inland British Columbia towns, sometimes separating husbands from their wives and families.[1]

“ "It is the government’s plan to get these people out of B.C. as fast as possible. It is my personal intention, as long as I remain in public life, to see they never come back here. Let our slogan be for British Columbia: ‘No Japs from the Rockies to the seas.'" ”
—Ian Mackenzie, MP[1]


Early in 1943, British Columbians managed to convince the Canadian government to allow the sale of all the properties seized from Japanese Canadians.

Answer 6

They were a threat to our society because they were the enemy. I'm sure you don't trust Arabs nowadays, do you? No disrespect, but I would be suspicious of Japanese people in WWII.

Answer 7

I urge you to give Science_g.... 12 points because, he has a good answer. Thanks