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Show e who wish to pursue meaningful basis for rican problems during the United States and ns of japanese Ancestry: y {Toronto: Canadian iological study of the Canadian japanese and unl (Toronto: Univerer the auspices of the he Institute of Pacific 1e Pacific War and its "d areas" of the Cana) f Japanese Canadians and resettlement are compare the methods ring similar-problems. osal for the "ultimate :tment order, initiated the Royal Canadian e" to accept the terms nstance in which the he United States with .lowing World War II. the courts after promajority ruling of the ~e by the government ndignation of a smalt 1e attempt at a general Jowerful group men: h Fowke, They Made flee on Japanese Canadihe Cooperative Com: l labor organizations, ;ociations of scientific , the National Council to uphold the princi- >Vernment which was in Canada. The outIt a nation can never The Wartime Relocation of japanese I 145 depend upon the laws or constitution to defend its rights: eternal vigilance is always the price of liberty." This statement applied equally to the handling of Japanese Canadian property which is treated in a separate section. It reveals that the Cooperative Committee was instrumental in forcing the government into a re-evaluation of its policy on this property. The same author discusses legal impediments to the freedom of Japanese Canadians in her article, "Justice and the Japanese Canadians" on page 225 of the January 1947 issue of The Canadian Forum (XXVI, 312). The March 1943 issue (XXII, 66, p. 350) of the same journal published a short article by C. Carlson, entitled, "Sugar Ration: Incident in Japanese Road Camp," a whimsical account of the relations between a group of "road camp evacuees" and members of the permanent crew. What About/he Japanese Canadians? written by W. H. Howard Norman and published by the Vancouver Consultative Council for Cooperation in Wartime Problems of Canadian Citizenship, is an excellent handbook explaining the circumstances faced by the Japanese and, particularly, by those among them who sought repatriation. The author was born and educated in Japan and served as a minister of the United Church in Vancouver during the war. He was an advisor to the British Columbia Security Commission (the agency for directing the removal of Japanese Canadians from the "protected areas") in setting up facilities for instruction of the children in accordance with the regulations of the Department of Education of British Columbia. He was therefore familiar with many of the problems which confronted the uprooted people. Bernard K. Sandwell, editor-in-chief of Saturday Nigh!, was one of the most outspoken and influential supporters of justice and fair play for the Japanese Canadians, especially during the most intense period of anxiety over the threat of deportation. In addition to his many speaking engagements and editorials on the subject, Sandwell made space in Saturday Nigh! available to other writers to join in his efforts to aro~se a lethargic public to the inherent dangers in the government policy. The pressure exerted by Saturday Nigh! and its editor on the collective conscience of Canadians helped avert a further blot on the conduct of the Canadian government during wartime and in the following period of adjustment. In one Saturday Night editorial {60:52, September 1, 1945, p. 3) Sandwell cited the unfair deportation procedures, deplored the lack of official information and contrasted Canadian methods with those of the United States, noting the greater American regard for citizenship. A later frontpage editorial (61:19, January 12, 1946), dealt with the legal technicali- |
