Prairie Farms and Ontario Work Camps

	Families Arrive, Picture Butte, Alberta Many Fraser Valley families took the option to work on sugar beet farms because it promised that families could stay together at a time when separation seemed inevitable. Photo 1942, courtesy of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
	Sugar Beet Pickers, Alberta Many lived in chicken coops. The work was back-breaking and remuneration not sufficient for winter survival. Special permission was needed to leave the farm for winter logging or canning work. Photo circa 1944, courtesy of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
	Jackfish Roadwork, Ontario Nisei men were employed on the Trans-Canada Highway north of Lake Superior. At Schreiber road camp, most men would stay for a period of months, then leave for commercial work placements elsewhere in Ontario Photo 1943, courtesy of David Sugai
	Schreiber Mess Hall Table, Ontario In every road camp, construction of an o-furo, Japanese bath, was one of the first priorities. Camp inmates built their own furniture and sometimes fashioned Japanese gardens out of the rough landscape. Photo circa 1943, courtesy of Japanese Canadian National Museum and Archives Society
	Lumberjacks, Neys, Ontario Some men moved from Schreiber to commercial lumber camps. At Neys, north of superior, they were paid about 10 cents an hour. The warm reception they received in northern Ontario towns surprised them. Photo circa 1943, courtesy of Ozzie Fujiwara
	Angler Prisoner of War Camp, no.101, Ontario Japanese were imprisoned because they were "potentially subversive", broke curfew, or protested the break-up of families. 700 men at a time were held at Angler, Ontario, behind barbed wire. Photo circa 1944, courtesy of the Archives of Ontario
	Repatriation to Japan In the depths of the evacuation the B.C. Security Commission offered families free passage to Japan if they renounced their Canadian citizenship. Of the 4,000 who accepted, most regretted it later. Photo 1946, Tak Toyota, courtesy of National Archives of Canada

Resettle East of the Rockies, or repatriate

	Phoebe Street, Toronto Following the single nisei men and women who have ventured east first, families left the evacuation camps. People found work in factories, service businesses, and agriculture. Lives were started over. Photo 1945, courtesy of Kay Fujiwara
	Niagara Peninsula Fruit Pickers The arrival of a few Japanese Canadians sparked protests in towns like Chatham, Ingersoll, and Georgetown. Toronto prohibited their entry for a period. Forest Hill Village barred nisei girls from working as domestics. Photo 1948, courtesy of Kay Fujiwara
	Garment Trade Workers, Montreal, Quebec Many Japanese found first jobs in garment factories in Montreal and in Toronto, on Spadina Avenue. Settling into the surrounding neighbourhood, they were aided by the Cooperative committee for Democracy and some of the churches. Photo 1955, courtesy of Tomeo Yamamoto
	NJCCA Meeting The National Japanese Canadian Citizens Association argued the claim for material losses and the elimination of restrictions. Alliances developed with the Canadian Jewish Congress and Civil Liberties Union. Photo 1947, courtesy The New Canadian
	First Vote The right to vote was won in June 1948. Further restrictions remained until March 31, 1949. Japanese Canadians were finally able to move about freely, own land and businesses, or enter any school or profession. Photo 1949, courtesy The New Canadian
	Outing to Niagara Falls, Ontario Japanese Canadians consciously avoided congregating. After a time, social groups revived and clubs and organizations were formed using rented halls. Bu no new geographic centre to the community developed in Ontario. Photo circa 1946, courtesy of Kay Fujiwara
	Young Men and Women A post-war wave of nisei marriages enlivened the community. Families dispersed to suburbs to find blue collar jobs. The west coast ghettos had been smashed. Nisei horizons had been extended, but at untold cost. Photo circa 1946, courtesy of Kay Fujiwara