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| | Canadian Concentration Camps |
 | | After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in the United States, the Canadian government passed the "Order in council PC 1486" expanding the power of the Minister of Justice to remove any and all persons from a designated protected zone (100 mile radius of the BC coast). |
 | | The women and children and older people were sent inland to internment camps (desolate ghost towns and farms made into small cities) in the interior of British Columbia at Greenwood, Sandon, Kaslo, New Denver, Rosebery, Slocan City, Bay Farm, Popoff, Lemon Creek, and Tashme. |
 | | Similar to the the emasculation and impoverishment of the Jews before the roundup to the German concentration camps, the Japanese Canadians had property, businesses, cars, and boats confiscated and sold by the Canadian government before they were forced into labor camps. |
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