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Episode 240: Canada has had a long and embarrassing history of race relations, starting with the indigenous peoples who\u2019d lived here for thousands of years prior to the arrival of European colonizers.\xa0\nOur nation has also facilitated the mass internment of people perceived as threats to our national security during war time. As World War I raged in Europe, internment camps were set up to house Ukranians, Germans, Turks and Bulgrians. Of the more than 8500 detainees involuntarily held in camps across the country, a small percentage were women and children, the dependants of the men being held. Other internees included homeless people, conscientious objectors, and members of outlawed cultural and political associations.\xa0\nAt the outset of World War II, a number of Canadian citizens of German and Italian decent, as well as Jews who were immigrating to Canada, fleeing Europe were rounded up and put into internment camps. After the Japanese attack on the United States in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, on 7 December, 1941, North Americans were afraid. The Second World War had come far too close to home. Just over a month after the Pearl Harbour attack, a process began which saw the mass internment of Japanese Canadians from 1942 until 1949. Many of the detainees, including women and children, had been born in Canada. The country they\u2019d grown up to love had uprooted them from their homes, seized their properties and taken away their rights and freedoms.\nDark Poutine is sponsored by BetterHelp.\nSources:\nInternment in Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia\nInternment of Japanese Canadians | The Canadian Encyclopedia\nThe Canadian Race Relations Foundation \u2014 Legalized Racism\nJapanese Canadian History \u2013 The Politics of Racism\nHastings Park Internment Centre - vancouvertraces\nJapanese Canadian Historic Sites in BC: Journeys of Home | Super, Natural BC\nHastings Park 1942 | Internment at Hastings Park\nTashme: A forgotten internment camp remembered - Fraser Valley Current\nTashme | Historical Project\nCanada\u2019s Internment Camps \u2013 Canadian History Ehx\n\u201cEnemy Aliens\u201d - The Internment of Ukrainian Canadians | Canada and the First World War\nFrom Racism to Redress: The Japanese Canadian Experience\nJapanese Canadian internment and the struggle for redress | CMHR\nJapanese Internment\nJapanese Canadian Historic Places - Heritage BC\nHOME PAGE \u2013 Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre\nInternment in Canada: WW1 vs WW2 \u2013 All About Canadian History\nVanishing B.C. Japanese-Canadian internment sites in the Slocan\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices