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LAC has compiled photographs of Japanese Canadian internment in a Co-Lab challenge and is seeking your help to write descriptions and add keywords that further contextualize these historic photographs and increase the “discoverability” of these records.

The federal government was responsible for the wholesale internment of the community, the seizure and liquidation of Japanese Canadian property, as well as postwar deportations.

Japanese-Canadians: Second World War

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