Relocation camp at Lemon Creek, British Columbia, 1943.
Two to three families might be crowded into these 5 by 24 foot wood and tarpaper shacks. Wood for fuel was scarce at camps like this one at Lemon Creek, British Columbia. Knowing this and seeing the heat loss indicated by the melted snow on the roofs, we can guess that these shacks would have been inadequately heated. An internee of Tashme camp later recalled being particularly vexed by "the lack of privacy and the regular irritation of closed-quarters living". Ironically many evacuees were sent to ghost towns like Sandon, Slocan, and New Denver. These towns had originally thrived as a result of the mining boom which followed the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, a work which could not have been built without Oriental Iabourers.
