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Photographs of the Japanese Internment in WWII

These images are from the Vancouver Public Library Historical Photograph Collection. To find these photographs as well as other images on the same or on a wide variety of other subjects, search the Historical Photographs Database online. You can also visit the Special Collections Department to search for more photographs in the collection that have not yet been scanned to the online environment.

Japanese children being escorted across Pender by Vancouver policeman
Province Newspaper, 1942
Japanese man leaving Hastings Park
Province Newspaper, 1942
Japanese men leaving by C.N.R. to eastern destinations; Province Newspaper, 1942

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