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www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/war-conflict/second-world-war/relocation-to-redress-the-internment-of-the-japanese-canadians/topic—relocation-to-redress-the-internment-of-the-japanese-canadians.html

CBC has excellent digital archives; this site includes radio coverage of speeches reflecting the racism of the period during the Second World War.

www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/war-conflict/second-world-war/relocation-to-redress-the-internment-of-the-japanese-canadians/the-long-journey-home.html

This website is more recent, and this short video about a Japanese Canadian family finally returning to a location near their original home in B.C. is particularly moving.

http://www.pc.gc.ca/culture/ppa-ahp/itm1-/page03_e.asp

On Parks Canada’s website, read more about the Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre National Historic Site of Canada in New Denver, B.C., which helps to preserve the history of the internment camps in the B.C. interior.

www.najc.ca

The website for the National Association of Japanese Canadians focuses on human rights and community development.

www.jccc.on.ca/heritage/five_gen/resources.html

The website for the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto recounts the history of Japanese Canadians over one century.

www.japanesecanadianhistory.ca/Foreword.html

Readers will see in the Acknowledgements of
Requiem
that as part of my research, I read this excellent book by Ann Gomer Sunahara. You can read it online here.

Also by Frances Itani

FICTION

Remembering the Bones

Poached Egg on Toast

Deafening

Leaning, Leaning over Water

Man Without Face

Pack Ice

Truth or Lies

Missing

Listen!

POETRY

A Season of Mourning

Rentee Bay

No Other Lodgings

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Linger by the Sea

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COVER DESIGN: ROYCE M. BECKER
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