YoshandMaryAMA

Mary: It is in the history books, and that's good cause all the young kids are learning it.

We're in Toronto, in Canada it is part of the curriculum but I doubt it is anywhere else. And honestly, I think having it as Canadian curriculum is enough, the rest of the world has their own WW2 history to learn about.

Yosh: No, they just all of a sudden came and rounded up the Japanese.

They were only kids when they were interned, we were talking about it now and they guessed that their parents might have been notified first.

We answered the property question in an earlier post: "We didn't hardly have anything, but they took it all and just sold it." I don't think the $21 000 was good enough, especially for the business owners who got shut down.

Mary: To be truthful I was too young to be angry, the parent were angry but they all used to say "nothing you can do about it" (in Japanese of course).

Mary: Getting married and getting settled and having three good kids and six good grandchildren. All our kids are professionals, make sure your write that down.

They sort of answered this in another post. They believe that something like this will never again happen in Canada, but they still have some left over feelings toward political parties. They always vote NDP federally, even though they lean to the right and vote conservative for provincial elections. They vote this way because:

"During the internment the only party that fought for us to be free was the CCF (now the NDP), that's why we always vote for the NDP. The conservatives were the worst, they said "a jap is always a jap, send them all back to Japan"."

They still have some lasting feelings toward the federal conservative party.

Yosh: There was still lots of prejudice in those days. We sort of stuck together because of that, the Japanese Canadians.