CHC2D
Japanese Internment in Canada during WWII – Image Analysis
Instructions: Using the PPT posted in the Google Classroom, select THREE images that resonate with you and use the
captions to help you complete the chart.
Slide #: Describe what you see in the image:
- The image is about a Vancouver police officer
escorting two Japanese-Canadian children
slide # 5 across a busy intersection
- In the image there were 4 children and the
police officer
- From seeing the umbrella that the two children
are holding and the rain coat that the polices
officer is wearing we can tell that it was a raining
day
- In the image it shows that the Japanese
Canadians are in the Community kitchen at an
internment camp in Greenwood, BC.
slide # 13 - There were adults and children all in the kitchen
- This image is about a man smiled for the
camera as he and his baby walked through the
Date: _2020-04-27_
What does this image tell us about the policies
used by the government when dealing with
those of Japanese descent during WWII?
- The police officer is treating the japanese
canadian children as what he will do with any
children.
- naturalized or native born Canadian citizens
would eke out the war with their rights intact
- Felt that the Japanese were a spy threat
- They lived without privacy in an unsanitary
environment
- Men could make some money in construction
work to support their families, but women had
very few opportunities.
- Many Canadians live in the internment camps
- The government has not been helping the
Japanese Canadian with how they are living
and money that they need to buy food with
- Lost their homes, belongings and were sent
to relocation camps
- Japanese-Canadians have the freedom to
live in any part of Canada they wished.
 Pacific National Exhibition grounds enroute to - Full rights of citizenship (including voting_)
internment. granted
slide # 45

Historical Thinking: Answer the following questions in your notes:

1. On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being the highest), how much do you think Japanese internment was based on racist attitudes rather than the
perceived threat of Japanese spies in Canada? Provide examples to explain your answer. (Ethical Dimension)

I think that it should be around 7 because I think it was more based on racist attitudes rather than the perceived threat of Japanese spies in Canada.
From the image and the captions we can see that in most of the captains it was talking about the Japanese-Canadians as one group of people they
did not say about the Japanese spies at all. so what that means was that they just think all Japanese-Canadians were bad and in the last image
(slide #45) it said that even they have the full rights of citizenship but they are not being turest by the government.

2. Do you think that policies similar to Japanese Internment can happen again in Canada? Explain why or why not. (Continuity and Change)

No, I don’t think that this will ever happen again in canada because now the economy is more calm and there’s a lot of people that are from different
places around the world to Canada so it won’t be like there’s one group that is bigger than other groups.