The last surviving member of the original Asahi baseball team, Kaye Kaminishi, just turned 100. That team was so legendary that they attracted the Tokyo Giants (the same team that regularly plays before 50,000 people at the Tokyo Dome) to play them at puny little Oppenheimer Park in the Downtown Eastside. The park is still there, and there's Asahi baseball markings still there on the baseball diamond. The legend lives on.
The Japanese internments are another black mark on Canadian History. That's the one thing I like about these Heritage minutes. They try to tell the story warts and all. The Canadian idea to have the elected assembly control their Governor General was eventually extended to all Commonwealth nations including Australia.
I know a someone who's mother was interned. When her daughter did a school presentation her teacher told her that "Canadians didn't intern the Japanese that was the Americans". It's terrifying to think how easy history, even while it's still in living memory, can be forgotten. It's not a fun heritage minute but I can't help but think there's Canadians who won't face that particular revisionist view of history because of it.
Canada is a very unique country with diverse landscape, resources, and people. I find your interest into our heritage quite interesting and would love to hear your comparison to your heritage.
I’m charmed that a young Australian is interested in Canada 🇨🇦, amazing. Regarding baseball, the field is usually called a baseball diamond because of the shape.
It is an error though, since by Lafontaine and Baldwin's time the two colonies were merged into one United Canada. Although United Canada was subdivided into Canada East and Canada West.
In French catholic Canada the church organ was a very expensive investment for a small parish. The Casavant organ is recognized for their great quality. They are lke Stardivarius' for violins.
The particularity of ''internment camps'' during WWII was that they were not equal - id est: the Japanese were almost universally deported to the camps, their homes and businesses seized with little or no compensation and held for the duration. It took the Federal Gov't over half a century to formally apologize and offer a modicum of compensation to the survivors and their heirs. Far fewer Italian/Canadians were rounded up for interment, even fewer of German extraction. It was a reflection of the anti-Asian prejudice that was prevalent at the time, both Chinese and Japanese were subjected to it. David Suzuki, famous biologist/conservationist and award winning broadcaster (CBC's The Nature of Things) evoke certain aspects of the incredible situation where/when, amongst other things, he was ostracized for not speaking Japanese by many in the camps.
It was easier for Italians and Germans to hide their heritage, and I might be wrong but I believe Canadian Japanese population had more assets, businesses and property then the other two groups which made it more lucrative for the government to target and easier sell propaganda about that population.
Thank you for including the Vancouver Asahi. Prior to WW2, anti-Japanese sentiment had been developing in B.C. due to Japanese people becoming successful in several B.C. industries, such as fishing and farming. The war became and excuse to remove Japanese from the coast, and the racist intent was revealed by the fact that the internment lasted two years after the war was over. Also, several RCMP officials did not find Japanese Canadians to be a security threat. In addition, the Canadian government took all Japanese Canadian possessions and didn't give them back but instead sold everything off, unlike in the U.S., where Japanese Americans returned to their homes after their internment. After the war, the Canadian government made internees either move to Eastern Canada or to Japan, which was a foreign country and culture to many of those born in Canada.
Forgot to say, it's interesting to hear your commentaries on these Heritage Minutes, to hear your perspective as someone from another country who may not be as familiar with some of the references and to understand how these Heritage Minutes translate cross-culturally.
The Queen had learned from the history of the American colonies that rebelled and gained independence by war...She realised that by acquiescing to Canadian demands that England would be able to maintain close ties and influence over North America for centuries to come.
@@glaframb - that is the more detailed explanation. I was giving him Grade 5 history class. Yes, grade 5 history has New France as being New France=Lower Canada=Quebec - but, if you include both Canadian and American history, New France also took up a lot of area in the USA. Also agree that Upper Canada was due to the influx of Loyalists - and that there was one Canada which had this annex added to it because of the influx.
As a Canadian I have to say... This guy would have made a better Canadian history professor than the one I had...I did a presentation on residential schools 20 years ago... and even my teacher had no idea!
The Governor General is the head of state in Canada still, not the Prime Minister. Probably because of this idea of "responsible governance", or we would have likely declared indepedance like the US by now. Our laws are still dependant on royal ascension/approval so they are sort of technically still dictated by the English royal family. Effectively, however, this is not the case, as the process is a formality and they never interfere with our elected representatives' decisions. I'm pretty sure it's the same in Australia, as we're both constitutional monarchies. If that is the case for Australia, I wouldn't feel too bad for not knowing; lot of Canadians don't know/remember that our Prime Minister is not technically our head of state. Myself included, before I minored in political science, even though I'm sure I learned that in school earlier in life.
Some of the heritage minutes are actually edited down from mini series or tv movies. The Avro Arrow one was edited down from a mini series and a lot of the hockey ones are from tv movies.
Canada does still have a governor general. Our current Governor general is the first native Canadian who does not yet know French because she was not taught it.
Unfortunately, Canada had internment camps for people of Japanese ancestry, even as they were born here. David Suzuki was one of those people, he was in a camp as a youth.
Governor Generals have since that approval by Queen Victoria, been Canadian citizens named/appointed by Parliament in Canada and later, in Australia, New Zealand, etc.
Not quite. Responsible government dates to 1840. It was the big reform before confederation, shifting a lot of authority to the local Canadian legislatures. The first Canadian governor-general was Vincent Massey after WW2. We had a century of British aristocrats as GG before that.
The Casavant company has been sold in 2019, I don't know to whom. But till then, it was still in the same family. Quite an impressive achievement. They made modest organs for several parish across the province of Québec of course but also everywhere across the globe. But to my knowledge, one of the most famous is in Montréal, in the Basilique Notre-Dame, you know? the church where Céline Dion got married?
Kingston Pen 5 minute walk down the road for me. No longer in service and now actually a lot of filming has been happening there over the last few years. Including Kings Town, and the Jack Reacher show
I once lived about a 5 minute walk away, too :) Loved the little stroll to Lake Ontario, but wasn't a fan of the high security prison that held Paul Bernardo. I felt safe though, because I figured if anyone escaped, surely they wouldn't be dumb enough to hide so close.
The ending of Responsible Government "it's a Canadian idea" and the response "pity ma'am" alludes to a popular series of tea commercials of the time that ended, in reference to availability, "only in Canada, you say? . . . Pity"
People talk about it like "dirty history" but it only makes sense. Sorry, if I'm going to war with the Nepalese, I'd probably want to make sure the Nepalese aren't a liability.
Canada still has a Governor General. That position in effect constitutes the role of Canada's Head of State, as the chief representative of the Crown. The role is largely ceremonial, but when it comes to things like proroguing Parliament, it can be... divisive.
One of the main points is that the forced uprooting, dispossession, internment, and exile was carried out by the Canadian government against Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry. 22,000 (babies to seniors) Canadians of Japanese ancestry were removed from the west coast of Canada. Senior Canadian military and RCMP (police) told the government there was no need to take action against Japanese Canadians. There were multi-generational families like mine who were in Canada since the 1800s. My grandfather was a baseball pitcher who played for the Vancouver Asahi baseball team. Japanese Canadians fought for Canada in the First World War with distinguished service and loyalty. They were part of the 22,000 who were forcibly removed. Internment started in 1942 and didn't end until 1949, four years after the end of the Second World War. The Canadian government's actions weren't for national security. It was a racist act for which they apologized in 1988.
Japanese Canadians enlisted in the Army and fought in the European Theater and landed in Italy fought hard and helped the Canadian Corps take position after position! No I am not Japanese descent, I am of Scotish descent!
My former boss is of Japanese decent. His parents were moved to southern Alberta under the internment during WWII. While it is a dark mark on our history, I am glad that history has brought them to our area. We are so much richer to have this element of our community here.
I'm happy to know you know about our Heritage Moments. I miss those along with those shorts about nature. I went to public schools in the 60s and 70s. Don't remember if I even learned about Canadian history back then. I didn't learn about it until my first year in university. And then, it was only one course.
Japanese Canadians were stripped of property and buisinesses and sent to internment camps during WWII after Pearl Harbor in the States. Another famous person sent there as a boy was Environmentalist David Suzuki whose daughter Severn Cullis-Suzuki gave that famous speech in 1992. German Canadians were not interned but they were harassed - my mom told me of two German Canadian girls at her school who were chased by the boys as soon as school let out.
To be honest, I really doubt the Queen's opinion on whether or not Canada should have a responsible government mattered much. It was a decision from the Parliament in London because it had abandoned its protectionist policy towards its colony. Canada needed to be more autonomous. It was not a "Canadian idea" either, since that is how UK had been governed since Walpole in the 18th century. What was new is that a colony should also have it. And yes, the city of Melbourne is named after William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who had been Prime Minister from 1834 to 1841. It is a strange idea to set that clip in 1841 since Canada was not afforded a responsible government before 1848, the same year Melbourne died. After the Rebellions of 1837-38, Lord Durham advised the adoption of a responsible government and the union of Lower and Upper Canada. Melbourne accepted the union (which became effective in 1840) but not the responsible government.
Kingston Penitentiary was Canada's longest employed prison. It has held the majority of our most dangerous and notorious criminals through its nearly 180 years of use. Not impossible to escape as Alcatraz might be, yet not a too frequent occurrence. A sentence to Kingston Pen most likely meant you were a lifelong convict.
Yes, we still have a governor general, who represents the monarchy in Canada. But we are governed by the government, elected by the people. The governor general and monarchy are figureheads more than anything else.
The camps were called internment camps. Many Japanese Canadians were sent to camps and their homes, businesses, fishing boats and other possessions were confiscated and sold to non-Japanese people. They were forcibly interned and relocated in the name of national security. In 1988, Prime Minister Mulroney issued an apology, a month after President Regan in the USA. Canada announced a compensation package of CA $20,000 to each surviving internee, and the reinstatement of Canadian citizenship to those deported to Japan.
Baseball field. Or the diamond. Ebbet's Field Flannels makes a Vancouver Asahi Jersey. There was a huge anti-Japanese racist sentiment in British Columbia before the war and the Japanese haters ran with the anti-Japanese feelings post-Pearl Harbor.
7:50 I'm sure the "cutsey" acting was hardly realistic. It's not abnormal for a wealthy female to hold sway in those days (via her husband or father). The "smarmy" portrayal kinda puts it outside of reality context.
Interment is the word here or detention camps is not one or proudest moment in Canada it was just Japanese not germans or Italian but there were some German pows in POW camps think most were German navy
Italians and Germans were indeed put in internment camps during WW11. This past year, the Italians finally got an apology. from our government. You should read up on the stories of how the Italians were treated and what our government took from them. Most of them were picked up because they got together at the Italian social clubs and many of them had their own businesses so they were suspected of being communists. One of the fellows whom they rounded up had four sons fighting for Canada in WW11.
What they don't tell you about Agnes... is she campaigned to fix the system but the Tory Gov't refused. It wasn't until a more centre, more compassionate gov't took power that any real change occurred. She slams that down and says is this Normal... and the Tory MP would have been like... ya it is... they had no issues with it. Sadly Tories are often on the wrong side of history.
No, they were concentration camps. People taken there lost all of their rights, freedom, and property. Conditions were horrible. They would save the cardboard from supply deliveries to try and insulate their "houses" so they wouldn't freeze to death. When they were released they had lost their businesses and homes and had to start over in poverty. The same thing happened to Italian Canadians.
The Japanese "Internment" Camps were not a shining moment, but the idea was many Japanese lived on the west coast and "modern fishing" ships could reach... Japan. So they were relocated during the "war" to landlocked parts of the country. War doesn't bring out the best in people. I'm glad we don't bury or hide the darker parts but... not a proud moment. As another said in the comments it was an anti-Asian move as few of the other "enemy countries" immigrants were treated that way. I suspect that the "ships" excuse was just that an excuse. Prison reform is rarely a "priority" as it is the "worst" members of society. So it takes... a new eye to see the flaws and change it. In Canada the Governor General acts as the Royal Representative, and the "final" approval of law/policy but he or she cannot really overrule the elected government, so more a formality than a position of power. (The position has some authority obviously but... limited. Kind of like a constitutional monarchy. 😉)
The last surviving member of the original Asahi baseball team, Kaye Kaminishi, just turned 100.
That team was so legendary that they attracted the Tokyo Giants (the same team that regularly plays before 50,000 people at the Tokyo Dome) to play them at puny little Oppenheimer Park in the Downtown Eastside. The park is still there, and there's Asahi baseball markings still there on the baseball diamond. The legend lives on.
The Japanese internments are another black mark on Canadian History. That's the one thing I like about these Heritage minutes. They try to tell the story warts and all. The Canadian idea to have the elected assembly control their Governor General was eventually extended to all Commonwealth nations including Australia.
I know a someone who's mother was interned. When her daughter did a school presentation her teacher told her that "Canadians didn't intern the Japanese that was the Americans". It's terrifying to think how easy history, even while it's still in living memory, can be forgotten. It's not a fun heritage minute but I can't help but think there's Canadians who won't face that particular revisionist view of history because of it.
Canada is a very unique country with diverse landscape, resources, and people. I find your interest into our heritage quite interesting and would love to hear your comparison to your heritage.
I’m charmed that a young Australian is interested in Canada 🇨🇦, amazing. Regarding baseball, the field is usually called a baseball diamond because of the shape.
The Governor General remains the Queen's representative in Canada (as in the other Commonwealth realms, such as Australia and New Zealand)
Keep it that way! Republics are dangerous.
At that time Canada was defined as Upper and Lower Canada, hence his reference to the Canadas.
It is an error though, since by Lafontaine and Baldwin's time the two colonies were merged into one United Canada. Although United Canada was subdivided into Canada East and Canada West.
In French catholic Canada the church organ was a very expensive investment for a small parish. The Casavant organ is recognized for their great quality. They are lke Stardivarius' for violins.
Canada's one of (if not the first nation) to get it's independence started, through the use of a *politely worded* letter.
The particularity of ''internment camps'' during WWII was that they were not equal - id est: the Japanese were almost universally deported to the camps, their
homes and businesses seized with little or no compensation and held for the duration. It took the Federal Gov't over half a century to formally apologize and
offer a modicum of compensation to the survivors and their heirs. Far fewer Italian/Canadians were rounded up for interment, even fewer of
German extraction. It was a reflection of the anti-Asian prejudice that was prevalent at the time, both Chinese and Japanese were subjected to it.
David Suzuki, famous biologist/conservationist and award winning broadcaster (CBC's The Nature of Things) evoke certain aspects of the incredible situation
where/when, amongst other things, he was ostracized for not speaking Japanese by many in the camps.
It was easier for Italians and Germans to hide their heritage, and I might be wrong but I believe Canadian Japanese population had more assets, businesses and property then the other two groups which made it more lucrative for the government to target and easier sell propaganda about that population.
Thank you for including the Vancouver Asahi.
Prior to WW2, anti-Japanese sentiment had been developing in B.C. due to Japanese people becoming successful in several B.C. industries, such as fishing and farming.
The war became and excuse to remove Japanese from the coast, and the racist intent was revealed by the fact that the internment lasted two years after the war was over. Also, several RCMP officials did not find Japanese Canadians to be a security threat.
In addition, the Canadian government took all Japanese Canadian possessions and didn't give them back but instead sold everything off, unlike in the U.S., where Japanese Americans returned to their homes after their internment. After the war, the Canadian government made internees either move to Eastern Canada or to Japan, which was a foreign country and culture to many of those born in Canada.
Forgot to say, it's interesting to hear your commentaries on these Heritage Minutes, to hear your perspective as someone from another country who may not be as familiar with some of the references and to understand how these Heritage Minutes translate cross-culturally.
The Queen had learned from the history of the American colonies that rebelled and gained independence by war...She realised that by acquiescing to Canadian demands that England would be able to maintain close ties and influence over North America for centuries to come.
There was the Patriot Revolt in 1837 in
Québec, francos & anglos united for greater independace/representation without Royal interferance...
England has zero influence over us today. It's all pomp and ceremony.
Even Queen Elizabeth calls us "the Canadas" because Quebec was originally called lower Canada and Ontario was originally called upper Canada.
@@glaframb - that is the more detailed explanation. I was giving him Grade 5 history class. Yes, grade 5 history has New France as being New France=Lower Canada=Quebec - but, if you include both Canadian and American history, New France also took up a lot of area in the USA.
Also agree that Upper Canada was due to the influx of Loyalists - and that there was one Canada which had this annex added to it because of the influx.
As a Canadian I have to say... This guy would have made a better Canadian history professor than the one I had...I did a presentation on residential schools 20 years ago... and even my teacher had no idea!
The Governor General is the head of state in Canada still, not the Prime Minister. Probably because of this idea of "responsible governance", or we would have likely declared indepedance like the US by now. Our laws are still dependant on royal ascension/approval so they are sort of technically still dictated by the English royal family. Effectively, however, this is not the case, as the process is a formality and they never interfere with our elected representatives' decisions. I'm pretty sure it's the same in Australia, as we're both constitutional monarchies. If that is the case for Australia, I wouldn't feel too bad for not knowing; lot of Canadians don't know/remember that our Prime Minister is not technically our head of state. Myself included, before I minored in political science, even though I'm sure I learned that in school earlier in life.
Some of the heritage minutes are actually edited down from mini series or tv movies. The Avro Arrow one was edited down from a mini series and a lot of the hockey ones are from tv movies.
I just found your channel, looking forward to watching more of these! It's great to see Heritage Minutes from an outsider's perspective.
Canada does still have a governor general. Our current Governor general is the first native Canadian who does not yet know French because she was not taught it.
Unfortunately, Canada had internment camps for people of Japanese ancestry, even as they were born here. David Suzuki was one of those people, he was in a camp as a youth.
" I heard you needed an 'Organist' ....... oh, not that type." ~ Glen Quagmire - Family Guy
Governor Generals have since that approval by Queen Victoria, been Canadian citizens named/appointed by Parliament in Canada and later, in Australia, New Zealand, etc.
Not quite. Responsible government dates to 1840. It was the big reform before confederation, shifting a lot of authority to the local Canadian legislatures. The first Canadian governor-general was Vincent Massey after WW2. We had a century of British aristocrats as GG before that.
The Casavant company has been sold in 2019, I don't know to whom. But till then, it was still in the same family. Quite an impressive achievement. They made modest organs for several parish across the province of Québec of course but also everywhere across the globe. But to my knowledge, one of the most famous is in Montréal, in the Basilique Notre-Dame, you know? the church where Céline Dion got married?
Baseball is big in Japan in large part because it was introduced during the American Occupation post-WWII.
Kingston Pen 5 minute walk down the road for me. No longer in service and now actually a lot of filming has been happening there over the last few years. Including Kings Town, and the Jack Reacher show
Murdoch Mysteries had an episode filmed there as well.
StarTrek Discovery also filmed there
I once lived about a 5 minute walk away, too :) Loved the little stroll to Lake Ontario, but wasn't a fan of the high security prison that held Paul Bernardo. I felt safe though, because I figured if anyone escaped, surely they wouldn't be dumb enough to hide so close.
@@Mystress1980 Especially when the city is full of prison guards, RCMP, city and Provincial police.
The ending of Responsible Government "it's a Canadian idea" and the response "pity ma'am" alludes to a popular series of tea commercials of the time that ended, in reference to availability, "only in Canada, you say? . . . Pity"
A lot of countries interned their citizens during WWII, including the United States and Australia.
People talk about it like "dirty history" but it only makes sense. Sorry, if I'm going to war with the Nepalese, I'd probably want to make sure the Nepalese aren't a liability.
Kingston prison closed in 2013, Mu aunt worked their briefly as a corrections officer in the mid 70's I think
Canada still has a Governor General. That position in effect constitutes the role of Canada's Head of State, as the chief representative of the Crown. The role is largely ceremonial, but when it comes to things like proroguing Parliament, it can be... divisive.
One of the main points is that the forced uprooting, dispossession, internment, and exile was carried out by the Canadian government against Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry. 22,000 (babies to seniors) Canadians of Japanese ancestry were removed from the west coast of Canada. Senior Canadian military and RCMP (police) told the government there was no need to take action against Japanese Canadians. There were multi-generational families like mine who were in Canada since the 1800s. My grandfather was a baseball pitcher who played for the Vancouver Asahi baseball team. Japanese Canadians fought for Canada in the First World War with distinguished service and loyalty. They were part of the 22,000 who were forcibly removed. Internment started in 1942 and didn't end until 1949, four years after the end of the Second World War. The Canadian government's actions weren't for national security. It was a racist act for which they apologized in 1988.
Wikipedia: Melbourne, Australia was named after Lord Melbourne.
Japanese Canadians enlisted in the Army and fought in the European Theater and landed in Italy fought hard and helped the Canadian Corps take position after position! No I am not Japanese descent, I am of Scotish descent!
love these reactions!
My former boss is of Japanese decent. His parents were moved to southern Alberta under the internment during WWII. While it is a dark mark on our history, I am glad that history has brought them to our area. We are so much richer to have this element of our community here.
Really enjoying your stuff, thank you
2 Canada's being referred to, most likely is in the year 1840 when the Act of Union, united Upper and Lower Canada into one Province of Canada.
I'm happy to know you know about our Heritage Moments. I miss those along with those shorts about nature. I went to public schools in the 60s and 70s. Don't remember if I even learned about Canadian history back then. I didn't learn about it until my first year in university. And then, it was only one course.
Responsible Government: a discussion that explains the creation of Canada as a country.
The camps that the Japanese/Canadians were kept in were called 'Internment Camps'
A good video for you to react to is ‘how many countriese half has ever invaded visualised’ you’d be surprised
Yes, we still have a GG, representating the Crown
Japanese Canadians were stripped of property and buisinesses and sent to internment camps during WWII after Pearl Harbor in the States. Another famous person sent there as a boy was Environmentalist David Suzuki whose daughter Severn Cullis-Suzuki gave that famous speech in 1992.
German Canadians were not interned but they were harassed - my mom told me of two German Canadian girls at her school who were chased by the boys as soon as school let out.
Baseball Diamond is their pitch
So who was the first female MP in Australia?
Upper Canada and Lower Canada back in the day.
Upper Canada now called Ontario, Lower Canada now called Québec.
It wasn't about teaching you everything it was about making it interested so you go learn more on your own
Once again amazing reaction 🙌
We still have a Governor General. Mary Simon.
I think Austrralia, has a Governed General, as well. We invented it, most commonwealth countries followed.
To be honest, I really doubt the Queen's opinion on whether or not Canada should have a responsible government mattered much. It was a decision from the Parliament in London because it had abandoned its protectionist policy towards its colony. Canada needed to be more autonomous. It was not a "Canadian idea" either, since that is how UK had been governed since Walpole in the 18th century. What was new is that a colony should also have it.
And yes, the city of Melbourne is named after William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who had been Prime Minister from 1834 to 1841. It is a strange idea to set that clip in 1841 since Canada was not afforded a responsible government before 1848, the same year Melbourne died. After the Rebellions of 1837-38, Lord Durham advised the adoption of a responsible government and the union of Lower and Upper Canada. Melbourne accepted the union (which became effective in 1840) but not the responsible government.
Kingston Penitentiary was Canada's longest employed prison. It has held the majority of our most dangerous and notorious criminals through its nearly 180 years of use. Not impossible to escape as Alcatraz might be, yet not a too frequent occurrence. A sentence to Kingston Pen most likely meant you were a lifelong convict.
Keep your stick on the ice, good job.
10:00 Canada has a Constitutional Monarchy.
Yes, we still have a governor general, who represents the monarchy in Canada. But we are governed by the government, elected by the people. The governor general and monarchy are figureheads more than anything else.
Italians were interred too.
you really nned to do a video about Terry FOx a true Canadian hero, Every year school kids do a run to raise money and awareness for Cancer care
The camps were called internment camps. Many Japanese Canadians were sent to camps and their homes, businesses, fishing boats and other possessions were confiscated and sold to non-Japanese people. They were forcibly interned and relocated in the name of national security. In 1988, Prime Minister Mulroney issued an apology, a month after President Regan in the USA. Canada announced a compensation package of CA $20,000 to each surviving internee, and the reinstatement of Canadian citizenship to those deported to Japan.
In Canada, to this day, we still have a governor general... (hm... wondering it the spelling is right here)... anyway I'm sure you take the jist...
baseball diamond
Baseball field. Or the diamond. Ebbet's Field Flannels makes a Vancouver Asahi Jersey. There was a huge anti-Japanese racist sentiment in British Columbia before the war and the Japanese haters ran with the anti-Japanese feelings post-Pearl Harbor.
Yes, we still appoint our Governor General.
Have you seen a blacksmith in person while he is morning?
7:50 I'm sure the "cutsey" acting was hardly realistic.
It's not abnormal for a wealthy female to hold sway in those days (via her husband or father).
The "smarmy" portrayal kinda puts it outside of reality context.
We still have a governor General In 2022
QUEEN Victoria before 1867 !!! 👍✌🖖🌻🍁
The Canada's were the upper Canada and the lower Canada
A baseball field
Baseball diamond
Australia also interned people during WW2. As did the US
Another video is top 10 heritage minutes from "watchmojo" channel ... great canadian channel
Interment is the word here or detention camps is not one or proudest moment in Canada it was just Japanese not germans or Italian but there were some German pows in POW camps think most were German navy
Still have the queens rep a figurehead position at best
Flogger I'm sure Australia had there dark period in there penal system
Italians and Germans were indeed put in internment camps during WW11. This past year, the Italians finally got an apology. from our government. You should read up on the stories of how the Italians were treated and what our government took from them. Most of them were picked up because they got together at the Italian social clubs and many of them had their own businesses so they were suspected of being communists. One of the fellows whom they rounded up had four sons fighting for Canada in WW11.
What they don't tell you about Agnes... is she campaigned to fix the system but the Tory Gov't refused. It wasn't until a more centre, more compassionate gov't took power that any real change occurred.
She slams that down and says is this Normal... and the Tory MP would have been like... ya it is... they had no issues with it. Sadly Tories are often on the wrong side of history.
@Halbinoni Imagine someone wanting to ignore the facts of political ideology by dismissing it as "tribalism."
No, they were concentration camps. People taken there lost all of their rights, freedom, and property. Conditions were horrible. They would save the cardboard from supply deliveries to try and insulate their "houses" so they wouldn't freeze to death. When they were released they had lost their businesses and homes and had to start over in poverty. The same thing happened to Italian Canadians.
The Japanese "Internment" Camps were not a shining moment, but the idea was many Japanese lived on the west coast and "modern fishing" ships could reach... Japan. So they were relocated during the "war" to landlocked parts of the country. War doesn't bring out the best in people. I'm glad we don't bury or hide the darker parts but... not a proud moment. As another said in the comments it was an anti-Asian move as few of the other "enemy countries" immigrants were treated that way. I suspect that the "ships" excuse was just that an excuse.
Prison reform is rarely a "priority" as it is the "worst" members of society. So it takes... a new eye to see the flaws and change it.
In Canada the Governor General acts as the Royal Representative, and the "final" approval of law/policy but he or she cannot really overrule the elected government, so more a formality than a position of power. (The position has some authority obviously but... limited. Kind of like a constitutional monarchy. 😉)
Thanks for filling me in!