Hi LINC 7 Students,

Here's the link to the audio we listened to in class. Peggy Lee discusses her experiences of discrimination during the Second World War. There is also a transcript of what she says, which you can read as you listen to her story.

Here is a link to the Canadian Encyclopedia entry on Internment. There is information about the evacuation of Japanese Canadians during WWII.

Here's a link to information about the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre in New Denver, BC, which was designated a national historic site of Canada in 2007.

The Centre is closely associated with the internment of Japanese during the Second World War. It is in the middle of what is known as “The Orchard”, the site of an internment camp built from scratch by the Canadian government to house forced evacuees from the West coast.

The camp is one of the few detention sites built for internment that was not torn down after the war and the only one where descendants of the Japanese Canadians who were displaced have lived since.