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DESCRIPTION:"Interested in what happened to Japanese Canadians when the Can
 adian government invoked the War Measures Act in 1942 and stripped their c
 itizenship rights\, categorizing them as enemy aliens and sending them to 
 internment camps throughout the B.C. interior?\n\nSFU Library Special Coll
 ections recently obtained a large collection of materials from one of thes
 e camps\, the Blue River road camp. The documents detail how the governmen
 t ran the camps\, how the interned men coordinated resistance\, how local 
 businesses used them as labourers\, and much more.\n\nOn Thursday\, Feb. 2
 0\, 2014\, 12:30-1:30 p.m.\, join Kirsten Emiko McAllister\, an associate 
 professor in the School of Communication for a discussion on <em>The Japa
 nese-Canadian Blue River Road Camp Collection.</em> She'll explain the si
 gnificance of these records for understanding one of the Canadian governme
 nt’s many programs to manage unwanted racial difference.\n\nMcAllister i
 s the author of <em>Terrain of Memory: A Japanese Canadian Memorial Proje
 ct</em>. \n\nThe free event takes place at the W.A.C. Bennett Library\, S
 pecial Collections\, at the Burnaby campus."\n\nhttp://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/
 stories/2014/revisiting-b-c-s-japanese-canadian-ww-ii-internment-camps.htm
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SUMMARY:The Japanese-Canadian Blue River Road Camp Collection
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