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The Japanese Relocation in World War II

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Empire on December 7, 1941, wartime paranoia led to the forced evacuation of Japanese and Canadians of Japanese ancestry away from the British Columbia to the province's interior and beyond to other provinces farther east. Combatants United States of America Imperial Japan Commanders Husband Kimmel (USN) Walter Short (USA) Chuichi Nagumo (IJN) Strength 8 battleships, 8 cruisers, 29 destroyers, 9 submarines, ~50 other ships, ~390 planes 6 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, 9 destroyers, 8 tankers, 23 fleet submarines, 5 midget submarines, 441 planes... His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Akihito of Japan The Emperor of Japan (天皇, tennō) is Japans titular head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family. ... December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages none stated in law; English is de facto Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seat  - Senate seats 36 6 Area Total  â€¢ Land  â€¢ Water    (% of total)  Ranked 5th 944,735...

One of the locations chosen for these relocations was a semi-abandoned hydroelectric-development village at Shalalth (colloquially known as Bridge River), one of the area of the Fraser Canyon town of Lillooet. Others in the area were at Minto City, McGillivray Falls, and East Lillooet. These were not fenced internment camps like the infamous one at Tashme, and mostly included family groups who had been able to "buy" a better situation in the Interior, with some chance of work, although comings-and-goings were still regulated by police and permits. This article needs to be wikified. ... View of Fraser Canyon near Fountain, BC View of Fraser Canyon looking upstream from Fountain, B.C. The Fraser Canyon is a stretch of the Fraser River where it descends rapidly through narrow rock gorges in the Coast Mountains enroute from the Interior Plateau of British Columbia to the Fraser... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The word internment is generally used to refer to the imprisonment or confinement of people, generally in prison camps or prisons, without due process of law and a trial. ... The Interior Plateau comprises a large region of central British Columbia, and lies between the Cariboo and Monashee Mountains on the east, and the Hazelton Mountains, Coast Mountains and Cascade Range on the west. ...

Many of the Japanese at the "Bridge River" townsite worked for the Pacific Great Eastern Railway and the cartage companies, while those at McGillivray Falls relocated to nearby Devine to work in a sawmill; at Lillooet, the presence of the Japanese helped keep the wartime merchant economy going, and the Japanese interest in market gardening helped rebirth the valley's small produce industry. Seton Lake from Mission Mountain, c. ... BC Rail (AAR reporting marks BCOL and BCIT), known as the British Columbia Railway between 1972 and 1984 and as the Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE; AAR reporting marks PGE and PGER) before 1972, was a railway that operated in the Canadian province of British Columbia between 1912 and 2004. ... Lillooet is located on the banks of the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada. ...

Coroner and Bush Doctor in Lillooet

One of the relocatees at Shalalth was Dr. Masajiro Miyazaki, a Canadian-trained osteopath whose practice had been thriving in Vancouver before the war. When the town of Lillooet's doctor died and a wartime replacement was not to be had to perform autopsies, the provincial costabulary in Lillooet recruited Dr. Miyazaki to act in the capacity of coroner. Seton Lake from Mission Mountain, c. ... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A coroner is either the presiding officer of a special court, a medical officer or an officer of law responsible for investigating deaths, particularly those happening under unusual circumstances. ...

Special permits were created to allow him to stay in Lillooet instead of at Bridge River (i.e. Shalalth). This position quickly evolved into that of all-around town-and-country doctor, dentist and obstetrician, wih patients throughout the whole region from Pemberton-Mount Currie to Pavilion and Lytton. Pemberton is a town north of Whistler in the Pemberton Valley and has a population of about 2,204. ... Lytton in British Columbia sits at the confluence of the Thompson River and Fraser River on the east side of the Fraser. ...

Dr. Miyazaki's practice also included the relocated {Japanese-Canadian] community at Taylor Lake, southeast of Merritt, a long distance away via the tortuous roads of the Fraser Canyon and the Thompson Canyon. His autobiography, My Sixty Years In Canada, contains one story after another of harrowing trips on mountain roads and rail lines in difficult weather and adverse conditions. Merritt, British Columbia (Latitude:50. ... View of Fraser Canyon near Fountain, BC View of Fraser Canyon looking upstream from Fountain, B.C. The Fraser Canyon is a stretch of the Fraser River where it descends rapidly through narrow rock gorges in the Coast Mountains enroute from the Interior Plateau of British Columbia to the Fraser... The Thompson River is a major tributary of the Fraser River in the south-central portion of British Columbia, Canada. ...

Miyazaki House

Dr. Miyazaki was invited to use as his surgery and residence Longford House, a fine 1880's vintage manor near the main street owned by one of the town's oldest families (see Caspar Phair, A.W.A. "Artie" Phair). Like many of the relocated Japanese in this district, Dr. Miyazaki stayed on after the war and became a major community leader, leading the campaign for a local ambulance service and proper hospital—despite longstanding resistance from the provincial medical establishment over his qualifications, as he was only an osteopath and not an MD. One of Lillooets first settlers, Caspar Phair came from Ireland with his wife, Cerise. ...

Ambulance and Hospital Services

During the 1950s, Dr. Miyazaki spearheaded efforts to get a proper ambulance service and full-scale hospital built at Lillooet.

Order of Canada

Towards the end of his life, Dr. Miyazaki was recognized for his services to the community by being enrolled in the Order of Canada, an honour shared by one of Lillooet's other notable citizens, Kansas-born Margaret Lally "Ma" Murray. Dr. Miyazaki's memoirs as a wilderness doctor and his reminiscences on Japanese-Canadian life before and during World War II can be found in the autobiographical "My Sixty Years in Canada" (typescript, very rare, but in some university libraries). He passed away of diabetes in Kamloops, BC on July 23, 1984. The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means, Desiring a better country. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Margaret Lally Ma Murray (1908-1982) -- wife of publisher and MLA George Murray and Order of Canada recipient. ... Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II... Locator map for Kamloops, BC Kamloops is a city in central British Columbia, Canada at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River. ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

His Order of Canada commendation reads: The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means, Desiring a better country. ...

C.M. (Member) December 15, 1976 April 20, 1977

Retired osteopath who, over a period of 35 years, has given unselfish service to the residents of Lillooet, British Columbia, particularly those of Japanese and Indian backgrounds and who continues to serve his community in spite of ill health.