Uprooted Japanese Canadians

Welcome to the JC Legacies Monument Names Database

This site contains the final list of names that will appear on the Japanese Canadian Legacy Monument in Victoria British Columbia, which is a key initiative of the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society (JCLS). The list includes Japanese Canadians forcibly uprooted from coastal BC to outside the 100-mile protected zone, those forcibly moved from other designated protected areas of BC, and those born after their parents were uprooted and prior to restrictions being lifted on Japanese Canadians.

The menu bar on the home page links to three different listings:

People listed by place of uprooting in 1942

Almost 200 specific communities have been identified where Japanese Canadians were living and working before their forced uprooting. These places of uprooting have been divided into 42 “Areas.” An index of communities at the top of the page lists all prewar communities and their associated Areas.

The list on this page provides a representation of how names are ordered on the Monument – showing the individuals by the Area they lived in prior to uprooting. Click on the (blue underlined) locations to see the list of names for that Area.

Those that were born after their parents were uprooted are listed separately at the bottom of the page.

Everyone (A to Z)

This list of names includes those uprooted (with the Area from which they were uprooted) and those born after uprooting. Names are listed alphabetically by last name.

Born after uprooting

This page contains the list of individuals who were born after their parents were uprooted and prior to restrictions on Japanese Canadians being lifted on April 1, 1949.

Notes

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This list of names has been submitted to JCLS for the design and build of the Monument and cannot be changed. To learn more about the status of the Monument, you can visit https://jclegacies.com/programs/monument and also sign up for the JCLS newsletter at the bottom of that page.

If there are individuals missing from the list of names, they can be submitted for future consideration to monument@jclegacies.com monument@jclegacies.com Please include the following information:

Full legal name of individual (at time of uprooting, or at birth if born post-uprooting of their parents)
date of birth
father's full name
mother's full name, including maiden name
father's location at time of uprooting
mother's location at time of uprooting
if born after parents' uprooting, then place of birth
requestor name and relationship to the individual

We invite you to explore the case files from the Canadian government’s Custodian of Enemy Property which was one of many sources of data to compile these names and places of origin within the foundational work of the Landscapes of Injustice Archive.