CBC Coverage of Chatham – Kent JC Heritage Markers
August 22, 2018
CEREMONIAL UNVEILING JAPANESE CANADIAN HERITAGE SIGNS – On September 7, 2018 at 11:00 pm a ceremonial unveiling of heritage signs and the planting of Yoshino cherry trees will be held at Mitchell’s Bay Park (Main and Park Streets) in Chatham, Ontario. […]
CBC ARTICLE Chatham-Kent Japanese internment camps to be commemorated with heritage markers
The history of our community is incomplete, as the dominant voice of the incarceration has been focused west of the Rocky Mountains. Lethbridge has had a Nikkei community in the 1930s and in the 1920s there was a Japanese Men’s Association in Regina. The lack of attention and information of the exile of Nikkei to Japan and the story of the diaspora of those who moved to the rest of Canada must be told.
The Chatham-Kent heritage markers and the marker in Schreiber, Ontario are the only two public reminders of those dark days in the history of Canada.
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