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Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre

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  • Internees' Belongings - Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre - New Denver, BC.jpg

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  • Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre National Historic Site of Canada.jpg

    Photo by Hu Gadarn at English Wikipedia via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

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Background

Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre is a museum that preserves and interprets one of ten Canadian concentration camps where more than 27,000 Japanese Canadians were incarcerated by the Canadian government during and after World War II (1942 to 1949). The centre was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2007.

Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.

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