Part 2: Life in the Lemon Creek Internment Camp
Tak vividly remembers hearing the news of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. “It was a Sunday and I was with friends out on Powell Street on our way home from playing badminton at the Japanese Language School when we heard the news from a radio in a parked car. It had a very sobering effect on all of us.”1
The order for Japanese Canadians on the west coast to leave their homes and property soon followed. Tak vaguely remembers that they had to rush to pack their bags and were allowed to take very little with them. Later they …