Vancouver Centennial Plaque #59 – Japanese Internment

Address:           Livestock Building, PNE

Status:             Missing, but there is a Places That Matter sign

"JAPANESE INTERNMENT

Fear of a Japanese attack during World War II provoked a demand for the removal of all residents of Japanese origin from the coast. In 1942 evacuation was ordered and ultimately over 8 ,000 people passed through the Livestock building before being moved east."

Credit: Vancouver Centennial Commission, Historic Plaque Program – list and documentation plaques 50-100 (June 18, 1986). Courtesy of Vancouver Archives

Photo credit: Vancouver Archives (AM281-S8- CVA 180-3541)