Tour of the site

The Monument wall consists of 100 granite panels listing the names of nearly 22,000 Japanese Canadians uprooted from Canada’s west coast in 1942, along with the names of over 3,000 children born after uprooting and before Japanese Canadians were given full rights of citizenship on April 1, 1949, four years after the war ended.

The wall is intended to illustrate the scope of the uprooting. In listing the 25,000, names, we provide for the first time a visual representation of the sheer number of people whose lives were irrevocably altered.

The list of names begins at the east side of the site, starting with an Introduction, Map of BC, and Index of Regions, Sub-regions, Areas, and Communities. Names on the wall are listed alphabetically by last name according to where people were living in 1942 at the time of uprooting. These places of uprooting are grouped into Areas, with specific Communities listed for reference.

The wall of names starts on Vancouver Island (Southern Vancouver Island, Victoria Area), followed by North Coast, Central Coast, and the Lower Mainland. The list of names ends in the Vancouver Area, followed by a short list of individuals uprooted from outside the 100-Mile Exclusion Zone. The final list of names features over 3,000 children born after uprooting.

The wall of names is set in a garden with dedication boulders in both Lekwungen (Lək̓ʷəŋən) and Japanese. In addition, there is a six-boulder Pathway to Justice which highlights the Japanese Canadian timeline.

This website was created to provide an enhanced search function for anyone who needs assistance in locating names of specific individuals on the wall.