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Japanese Interment Camps had high barbed wired fences and have armed guards around them. The camps are said to have been run humanly. Men where separated from their families and forced to do labour jobs like road work. - True

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During the Battle of Hong Kong there was one Japanese soldier who was grabbing grenades that were being thrown at his section and throwing the back at the Winnepeg grenaders. When there was a bomb he couldn't get to on time he alerted his section and jumped on the grenade to smother the explosion. He saved many lives. He was Company Sergeant-Major John Osborn. -True

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The forcible expulsion and confinement of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War is one of the most tragic sets of events in Canada’s history. Some 21,000 Japanese Canadians were taken from their homes on Canada’s West Coast, without any charge or due process. Beginning 24 February 1942, around 12,000 of them were exiled to remote areas of British Columbia and elsewhere.

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There were lot's of internees being slain, and the camps were surrounded by barbed-wire barriers and monitored by armed guards. Camps were, on the whole, run humanely. Residents built a sense of community, setting up schools, newspapers and youngsters practised sports

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Internment of Japanese Canadians began in 1942, when over 22,000 Japanese Canadians from British Columbia were forcibly transported and detained in the interest of national security. This represented over 90% of the total Japanese Canadian population. The vast majority were adopted Canadian citizens.  This decision followed the events of the Japanese invasions of British Hong Kong and Malaya, the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the subsequent Canadian declaration of war on Japan during World War II. The men in these camps were typically separated from their families and forced to perform physical labour such as roadwork. In addition, some 700 Japanese Canadian males were transported to POW camps in Ontario. Finally, 4,000 or so Japanese Canadians were dispatched to work on sugar beet farms in Alberta and Manitoba to assist alleviate labour shortages.

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- the government took all of the japanese peoples belongings (buisnesses, boats, homes, etc) and made them work in logging camps where they where kept in poor conditions, but had to pay to stay there!

- the government took their raidos since they where worried they would be comunicating with the enemy

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1685 Canadians were imprisoned in the pow camps which they would be starved and barely be living and 300 Canadians died at war and 267 died at the pow camps from the treatment

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The battle of hong kong started on the 8th of December and lasted to the 25th with the surrender of Canadian, British and Indian troops. the battle started when the Japanese attacked a series of forts on the north part of hong kong called the Jin drinkers line. The Garrison there was made up of British, and Indian troops , however it was highly undermanned and fell within the first few days of the battle. The rest of the battle was a large amount of brutal skirmishes and house to house fighting. The Japanese split the British Forces on Hong kong island in two and by the last week of fighting, the British only held the coastal village of Stanly, and after a few days of very intense fighting. The British ran out food and ammunition and were forced to surrender.

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The battle of Hong Kong was a disastrous defeat for the Canadians. This battle lasted from December 8-25th, 1941. Many of the young Canadians were underprepared and not equipped/ready to go into battle. About three weeks into the battle, the Canadians were forced to surrender. 290 Canadians killed, and hundreds wounded.

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The camps were lined with barbed wire as well as patrol teams to keep everyone in and no one escaping. The camps were generally run humanly and were even schools, newspaper, and sports for children. However there were still some Japanese deaths due to bad medical care. The camps lasted for about 3 years. -kaitlyn

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In early 1942, more than 90% of Japanese Canadians living in British Columbia were detained and placed in internment camps for the rest of the war. They were able to be arrested because the government at the time enacted the War Measures Act.
In these camps, the men would be separated from their families and forced to do laborious work. Despite all of the work that they had them doing, they couldn't seem to spare time to upgrade living conditions. Lena Hayakawa said, "In the wintertime, there was only a wood stove... the bathroom and everything was all outside and there was no bathtub. In the wintertime, my mother had to bring the snow in the house and melt it." She also mentioned that, when laying down, she could see between the logs that were used to make the cabins.

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The Japanese would live in huts shared with other families with no electric or running water and the government would sell all of the Japanese possessions including their properties without any consent to pay for the internment camps

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Hong Kong was the first place Canadians fought a land battle in the Second World War. From 8 to 25 December 1941, almost 2,000 troops from Winnipeg and Quebec City were sent to Hong Kong expecting little more than guard duty and fought bravely against Japanese forces. When the British colony surrendered on Christmas Day, 290 Canadians had been killed in the fighting. Another 264 would die over the next four years, amid the inhumane conditions of Japanese p.o.w camps.

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The Battle of Hong Kong, also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, took place between 8 and 25 December 1941, and was one of the first battles of World War II's Pacific War. The Imperial Japanese soldiers attacked the British Crown territory of Hong Kong on the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor, without declaring war on the British Empire. The garrison in Hong Kong was made up of British, Indian, and Canadian troops, as well as the Auxiliary Defence Units and Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.

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The battle of Hong Kong started only six hours afters the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This battle caused many casualties with 290 Canadian killed and 493 wounded. It all started with Britain sending reinforcements as well as Canada on an attempt to stop Japan from starting a war. -kaitlyn

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When Britain made a request for Canadian soldiers to be sent to Hong Kong for garrison duty, two battalions (mainly filled with inexperienced soldiers) were sent over. Three weeks later - merely six hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor - Japan invaded Hong Kong.
It was the first land battle that Canadians would fight during WW2. Due to Japan surprising everyone with their bold, unexpected strategy they were able to win the battle. Overall, there were 783 Canadian casualties - including 290 who were killed - and 264 more would die in Japanese POW camps.

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The attack on pearl harbour and hong Kong made canadian worried about their japaness neighbors. First the older males were sent to workcamps. Next entire families were forced into a house without proper equipment. Their items were also seized. Over 21,000 were taken from their homes and placed in camps and never got their items back. Jacob

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in the battle of Hong Kong the canadian soldiers where unexperienced, over powered, and overall unprepared.  This lead to 783 Canadian soldiers dying in combat.

The soilders who lived surrdenered on December 25th (christmas day), and became prisioners.
They where kept in POW camps, where they would be kept in poor conditions. many died due to malnutrition/starvation, living in poor conditions, torture, etc.

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On December 7th, just hours after Pearl Harbor, Japanese Troops invaded Hong Kong with 50,000 troops, outnumbering the Allied Troops at just 15,000. On top of that, with no Air Force or Navy, the allied forces couldn't fight back against the Japanese Troops, and a little over 2 weeks later on December 25th, the British Commander surrendered.

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After conflict with Japan a lot of Canadians feared that the Japanese Canadians could be helping the enemy or being used as a spy, as a result of this many Japanese people had all their possessions taken away, boats, valuables even houses, after this they were sent to logging camps to work for the rest of the war although had to pay to even be there, as the war ended they were still banned from living in Vancouver and little to none received any of their previous belongings back - kingsley

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From 8 to 25 December 1941, almost 2,000 troops from Winnipeg and Quebec City went to Hong Kong and fought their first land battle in the Second World War. The Imperial Japanese soldiers attacked the British Crown territory of Hong Kong on the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor, without declaring war on the British Empire. The Hong Kong garrison included British, Indian, and Canadian troops, as well as the Auxiliary Defence Units and the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.

The defenders abandoned the mainland within a week, and the colony surrendered less than two weeks later, their position on the island untenable.

The entire Canadian army was killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. The Canadian prisoners were subjected to horrible abuse by Japanese forces. In Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, a large chunk of the Canadian force died. Only 1,428 POWs from the conflict returned to Canada at the end of the war.

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The fall of hong kong signalled the point where canadians really saw the cost of this war. 2000 canadians stationed in hong Kong were assaulted by 50,000 Japanese soldiers. The canadian and their allies held off the attack for 17 days but without ships an airforce or any relief they surrended. 300 canadians died defending hong kong and 267 more died in POW camps.

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While having been on guarding duty in Hong Kong, the 2,000 Canadians that were staying at a British garrison unaware that Japan was readying for war had suddenly began attacking Hong Kong causing the stationed inexperienced Canadians to suffer plenty of casualties. The Canadians had tried their hardest at defending for as long as they could but the constant battling and watching their fellow soldiers be wounded or killed gave the white flag and had surrendered to the Japanese forces. And then were forced into harsh POW camps where many more soldiers had died. By the end 783 Canadian casualties had happened.

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Six hours after the bombing at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese 38th Division made up of well-trained, battle-hardened troops attacked Hong Kong. The invaders bombed the colony’s airfield and other military installations and quickly overran the troops defending the mainland portion of the territory. The defenders here included the men of “D” company of the Winnipeg Grenadiers, who on 11 December 1941 became the first Canadian army troops to engage in combat in the second world war. Ava

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The battle of Hong Kong was fought around December 1941, in total there was 783 casualties with 290 killed and on top of that 264 killed in the prisoner of war camps, this was a battle the Canadians were not prepared for. Kingsley

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Canadian Forces arriving to defend Hong Kong

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Hong Kong was sadly a tragic defeat, seeing underequipped and underprepared young Canadian men in Hong Kong, attempting to hold Japanese forces off from the British owned city. However of the two army battalions sent, one had only served within Canada, while the other had only seen deployment in Jamaica. This, alongside fighting in an unknown land for the first time, the Canadians were forced to surrender roughly 3 weeks into the battle. Hundreds had been killed, and many more wounded or sent to POW camps. Sadly, roughly 270 Canadian troops never left these camps.

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On Febuary 19th 1942 120,000 Japanese people of ancestory were forcefully relocated and incarcerated in concentration camps. They were mostly placed within British Columbia, those who resisted were sent to prisoner camps in Petawawa Ontario.These camps were made in an effort to curb potential Japanese espionage. Many died due to a lack of nutrition, inadequate medical care or killed by military guards for resisting orders. Their space to live was very small and they had no privacy.
aimee

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-Date: December 8-25, 1941

-Participants: Canada, Japan, UK, India, Hong Kong, China

-Casualties: 783 (493 wounded, 290 killed)

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After the surrender, many Japanese soldiers still hurt the Canadians. They would bayonet wounded soldiers in the hospital, kill and assault the nurses and torture some prisoners.

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When the British colony surrendered on Christmas day, 290 Canadians were killed in battle. Another 264 would die over the next four years in the brutal conditions of the Japanese prisoner of war camps.
The Canadian prisoners were the POW for more than 3 and a half years. It was the foulest conditions and they had brutal treatment and near-starvation.

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POW (Prisoner of war) camps were held by Japanese soldiers and held Canadian soldiers captive. they were made to work and were living in very scarce conditions. So little food was given that 267 Canadiens died at the camps almost matching the 300 that dies in the actual battle.
Jett

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The battle of Hong Kong started Dec 8-25, 1941. This was known as the defence of Hong Kong or the fall of Hong Kong was also used. It was one of the first battles to start the Pacific War being in WW2. Britain thought of Japan as a threat, this threat started in 1921, and escalated throughout the 1930s. British defence studies concluded that Hong Kong would be extremely hard to defend in the event of a Japanese attack, but in the mid 30s work began to come into place to work on improvements to defences including along the Gin Drinkers' Line.

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Japanese Internment Camps were created to hold any japanese people captive. The camps were lined with sharp barbed wires with rmed gaurds everywhere with isolated interenees being killed. Residents were held there for no less than three years ot till the end of the war. Conditions were very poor which forced food packages to be sent from japan through the Canadian Red cross to those who were suffering. THe Japanese Interment camps finally ended March of 1946.
- Polina

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The Canadian government sold Japanese-Canadians' property and used the money to fund the internment camps. Essentially forcing the prisoners to pay for their own imprisonment.

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-The Canadians were unexperienced and overpowered by the Japanese soilders, they surrendered on christmas day and became prisoners of war

-783 Canadian castualties.

-Some Canadians died in battle, and others died from the poor conditions in POW camps (there were survivers)

-Rae

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The were and when of Japanese interment camps. (Judah)

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The were and when of Japanese interment camps. (Judah)

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These interment camps toke place starting in early 1942 till mid 1945 in rough condition's usually without basic necessities to live a decent life they were mostly in British Columbia as that is were most Japanese's Canadines lived, as it was the closet province to Japan. but not all were there. They were specifically in Petewa Ontario, Northern B.C, Northern Alberta and eve some in Western New Brunswick. Overall these camps were not right and should have never happened.

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They’ve taken away everything from them froze their accounts and were, taken to camps where they would starve since, they didn’t have anything and they were even being called harsh things they even gave them a nickname, “japs” which was a racist thing at the time even, Canadian Japanese were taken away from ages 16 to 46.

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There were 783 Canadian casualties (not including the 264 that died in POW camps). Japan didn't suffer nearly as many. It was a completely one sided battle.

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Only days after the infamy that was the bombing of Pearl Harbour, Japanese soldiers invaded Hong Kong China with the hope to take over more power in the country. Canada decided to go in and help defend even with the discouragement from allies. After days of battle, the outnumbered allies surrendered on Christmas day, now being referred to as black Christmas because of the atrocious acts made by Japanese soldiers on the day of the surrender.
Jett

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Logging camp turned internment camp during WW2

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Japanese Canadians that had lost their jobs and belongings to be sent to internment camps were still given work to do, as many of these camps were small logging camps. And so, the men would be out running a logging operation (or whatever work would need to be done depending on the camp), while women and children would remain in the cabins taking care of the home, etc. The pay was poor and working conditions were no better, but it was all that they were provided with, and they had to do it, so they worked.

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When the racism towards Japanese Canadians skyrocketed after the bombing of Pearl Harbour, the Canadian government decided to take away Japanese families' belongings, businesses, and ships. The government then sold them without their consent. Ironically enough, the money they gained from selling those possessions was used to fund the internment camps themselves.

Lila

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Six hours after the bombing of Peral Harbour on 7th of December 1941 the Japanease 38th division attacked Hong Kong from December 8-25th 1941.  Canada sent over 1975 non fully equipped troops that were still in traning over to help defeat Japans agression. This battle ended in Japanese victory.
aimee

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-They specificly targeted Japanese Canadians along the west coast at one point

-There was already a lot of racism towards japanese Canadians before the attack on pearl harbour, the attack just lit the spark.

-The camps in Canada were not surounded by barbed wire and such but the conditions were very overcrowded and poor

-Rae

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By the end of the war more then %90 of Japanese Canadians living in British Columbia were detained under the war measures act, and they had all of their belongings, other then a single suitcase, taken away, and they were forced to pay for their own internment

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Canada and the allied troops defended Hong Kong for 17 days before surrender.

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Hong Kong was the first place Canadians fought a land battle in the Second World War. From 8 to 25 December 1941, almost 2,000 troops from Winnipeg and Quebec City sent to Hong Kong expecting little more than guard duty fought bravely against the overwhelming power of an invading Japanese force.

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The Conditions on theses camps were brutal, from blazing heat from the Japanese's summers to the cold harsh windy winters these solider went through it all. They sufferd mainly from Starvation as they were rarly fed and the living condition's were close to nothing, it was muddy,wet and discusting, these condition's led to many desises like Chlorea ulcers and more and often evn led to death. These solders wre treated like garbage and we lucky to make it out alive at the end of the war from these terrible condition's.

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Small living spaces and arrangements of tasks such as meal preparation, laundry, and child care, lessened women's domestic duties while they were placed in Japanese internment camps. In some ways, these were positive changes for women; freeing up young women for education, and older women for wage-earning positions.
-Adhi

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The Mainland was lost within a week, and British troops withdrew to Hong Kong Island. Britain feared that Japan would declare war and attack their colonial possessions in East Asia so they sent reinforcements to Hong Kong.

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The battle of Hong Kong was the first place Canadians fought that was a land battle in the second World War. Of the 2,950 canadians that fought 290 were killed,493 wounded and 260 died in the awful conditions of the Hong Kong prison camps. Hong Kong finally surrendered on Christmas Day.
- Polina

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The Battle of Hong Kong ended with a great amount of casualities. 290 Canadians were killed and 493 wounded. Evelyn

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Canadian Army and Navy chiefs denied that Japanese Canadians were dangerous or posed a threat. Politicians did not care and began campaigning for the "removal" of Japanese Canadians.
Liv

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When Hong Kong surrendered on Christmas Day, the Japanese began their cruel treatment towards them and Canadian soldiers who fought in Hong Kong. The prisoners of war were put on starvation diets, some prisoners were tortured and then killed. This led to Allies calling the day of surrender "Black Christmas".

Lila

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The battle of Hong Kong was the first land battle fought by Canadians in WW2

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Find and paste images of the Battle of Hong Kong here. Make another post with picture of Japanese Internment Camps in Canada.

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Find and paste images of the Battle of Hong Kong here. Make another post with picture of Japanese Internment Camps in Canada.

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Include related information and brief statements or findings about these two events
Include your name with the post and remember to post brief notes in addition to your pictures.
Goal is to eventually have a large class wide note here on these two events
Mr. J

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The Battle of Hong Kong took place on December 8-25 1941. There was 783 wounded  and 290 killed plus 264 that later died in POW camps. The Canadians were not ready for this war.
Bree

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12,000 Japanese Canadians were forced into internment camps in Canada. The men of the families were separated and forced into doing physical labour. - Hailey