ON THIS DAY
To learn more, visit the Historica Canada website at www.historicacanada.ca
September 22, 1988
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
formally apologized for the internment of Japanese Canadians
during the Second World War. Nearly 22,000 Japanese Canadians were sent away to internment camps. The government
offered a $300-million compensation package for wrongful incarceration, property confiscation and disenfranchisement. Unlike prisoners of war, protected
under the Geneva Convention, Japanese Canadians were forced
to pay for their own internment.
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