Appendix II: Select Statistics on Evacuation and Deportation

Table 5: National Status of Japanese in 1941
BRITISH COLUMBIA CANADA
Male Number % Female Number % Total Number % Total Number %
Japanese nationals 3,558 28.6 2,006 20.7 5,564 25.2 5,768 24.9
Naturalized Canadians 1,825* 14.7 1,398 14.5 3,223 14.6 3,694** 16.0
Canadian born 7,043 56.7 6,266 64.8 13,309 60.2 13,687 59.1
Total 12,426 100.0 9,670 100.0 22,096 100.0 23,149 100.0

* Includes 163 males 130 females born in Japan of British parents.

** Includes 514 persons born in Japan of British parents.

Source: Compiled from statistics provided by Census of Canada 1941.

Table 6: Japanese in British Columbia 1942–1949
Detention Camps Elsewhere in B.C Totals
1942 January 1 - 21,975 21,975
1943 January 1 12, 114 4,390 16,504
1944 January 1 11,365 4,738 16,103
1945 January I 10,303 5,307 15,610
1946 January 1 9,658 5,058 14,716
1947 January 1 900 5,876 6,776
1948 March 31 - 6,255 6,255
1949 March 31 - 6,110 6,110

Source: Department of Labour, Report on the Re-establishment of Japanese in Canada 1944-1946; Department of Labour. Report of Department of Labour, annual reports for fiscal years ending March 31, 1949. Concise data unavailable for people who continued to live in New Denver, Greenwood, Kaslo and Slocan City after their status as detention camps was terminated.

Table 7: Disposition of Evacuees from Protected Zone (October 31, 1942)
Road construction camps 945*
Blue River – Yellowhead 258
Revelstoke – Sicamous 346
Hope – Princeton 296
Schreiber 32
Black Spur 13
Sugar beet projects 3,991
Alberta 2,588
Manitoba 1,053
Ontario (males only) 350
Detention camps in British Columbia 12,029
Greenwood 1,177
Slocan Valley 4,814
Sandon 933
Kaslo 964
Tashme 2,636
New Denver 1,505
Voluntary self-supporting sites in British Columbia 1,161
Special permits to approved employment 1,359
British Columbia 925
Alberta 90
Saskatchewan 14
Manitoba 24
Ontario 253
Quebec 52
Yukon 1
Repatriated to Japan 42
Evacuated prior to March, 1942 579
Interned in Ontario 699
In detention, Vancouver 111
Hastings Park hospital 105
TOTAL 21,460**

* Between March and June, 1942, a total of 2,161 Japanese were placed in road construction camps. Many of them subsequently were allowed to join families in the interior detention camps by October, 1942.

**92 persons, representing Japanese married to whites and their children, were issued permits on April 11, 1942, exempting them from evacuation orders.

Source: Canada, British Columbia Security Commission, Removal of Japanese From Protected Areas, Vancouver, October 31, 1942.

Table 8: Dispersal East of the Rockies 1942–1949
Jan. 1, 1942* Jan. 1, 1943 Jan. 1, 1944 Jan. 1, 1945 Jan. 1, 1946 Jan. 1, 1947 March 31, 1949
PRAIRIES
Alberta 534 3,231 3,469 3,559 3,681 4,180 3,900
Saskatchewan 100 129 153 157 164 505 450
Manitoba 30 1,084 1,094 1,052 1 ,052 1,186 1,300
TOTAL PRAIRIES 664 4,444 4,716 4,768 4,897 5,871 5,650
EASTERN CANADA
Ontario 132 1,650 2,424 2,914 3,742 6,616 7,800
Quebec 25 96 334 532 716 1,247 1,300
Maritimes 2 I 1 1 1 17 10
TOTAL EASTERN CANADA 159 1,747 2,769 3,447 4,469 7,880 9,110
BRITISH COLUMBIA 21,975 16,504 16,103 15,610 14,716 6,776 6,110
YUKON and N.W.T. 39 30 29 29 30 31 40
TOTAL CANADA 22,837 22,725 23,617 23,854 24,112 20,558 20,110

* Based on RCMP registration undertaken in 1941, not on 1941 census.

Source: Canada, Department of Labour, The Re-establishment of Japanese in Canada 1944-1946, Ottawa, 1947; Report of the Department of Labour, annual reports for fiscal years, ending March 31, 1949. Figures for 1949 are approximate except for British Columbia.

Table 9: Repatriation Survey by Nationality
Declarations for Repatriation* Requests for Revocation
Adults Dependent Children Adults Children
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Japanese Nationals 2,609 16
Naturalized Canadians 1,297 2
Canadian born 1,939 3,398
TOTAL 5,845 3,416 3,908 1,690
EAST OF THE ROCKIES
Japanese Nationals 323 1
Naturalized Canadians 139 0
Canadian born 585 323
TOTAL 1,047 324 619 96
ALL CANADA
Japanese Nationals 2,932 17
Naturalized Canadians 1,436 2
Canadian born 2,524 3,721
TOTAL 6,892 3,740 4,527 1,786
TOTAL ADULTS AND CHILDREN 10,632 6,313

*As of March 25, 1946 numbers included in Declarations for Repatriation up to August 31, 1945, were 6,844 adults and 3,503 children, totalling 10,347.

Source: Canada, Department of Labour, Report on Re-establishment of Japanese in Canada 1944-1946, Ottawa, 1947.

Table 10: Total Awards for Property Claims
Claims Awards Number of Awards Average Award
1. Vancouver property $1,251,989.50 $60,447.42 204 $296.31
2. Rural property 847,342.74 237,534. 96 204 1,164.39
3. Fraser Valley 1,838,162.50 632,226. 61 515 1,227.62
4. Fishing boats, gear 160,432.00 19,744.95 95 207.84
5. Fishing nets, gear 148,958.91 52,759.54 182 289.89
6. Motor vehicles 109,660.62 18,223.81 145 125.68
7. Chattels 975,501.87 201,891.97 904 223.33
Total $5,332,048.14 $1,222,829.26 2,249 $543.72

Source: Canada, Department of Justice. Recommendations for Payments of Awards to Persons of the Japanese Race Whose Claims were Considered by the Hon. Justice Henry I. Bird under the Provisions of Order-in-Council P.C. 3737, September 17, 1947. Ottawa, April 3, 1950.

Table 11: Net Costs of Japanese Programme 1942-1951 (By Fiscal Years)
Dept. of Labour* Dept. of Justice**
1941-42 $25,398.96 -
1942-43 4,266,106.21 -
1943-44 2,598,567.44 -
1944-45 1,992,246.45 -
1945-46 2,046,593.37 -
1946-47 3,015,243.12 -
1947-48 599,079.54 $26,569.73
1948-49 317,438.66 119,224.00
1949-50 163,603.96 41,734.39
1950-51 44,597.72 -
Total $15,068,875.43 $187,528.12 $15,256,403.55

* Includes cost of repatriation programme in 1946-47 of $1,131,731.81; in 1947-49 of $2,313.12.

**Administration of Royal Commission Inquiry into Japanese property claims. Source: Compiled from statistics provided by Canada, Public Accounts, annual reports 1941-42 to 1950-51.