Japanese-Canadian mother and daughter, Toronto, Ontario, 1973.
This Japanese-Canadian mother is teaching her daughter a traditional dance in Toronto's Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in 1973. Toronto, which forbade the entry of Japanese Canadians during the war, now is home to more of their number than any other Canadian city. Since 1947 Chinese Canadians have had the vote, but Japanese Canadians had to wait another two years. Immigration from Asia has been re-established, but two-thirds of British Columbia's pre-war Japanese-Canadians remained outside the province after the war. Many shared the opinion of one man who wrote: "I am one of those who can't go home again. Vancouver is a favoured part of our country ... But for me Vancouver is also memories of growing up in a climate of race hatred".
Courtesy: Toronto Star, April 18, 1973, photograph by Graham Bezant
