Remembrance Day ceremonies across Canada may have felt pared back this year to keep people safe during the pandemic, but Wednesday marked a particularly important year for the Japanese Canadian War Memorial. The cenotaph, located in Vancouver's Stanley Park, marked 100 years since it was built by the Canadian Japanese Association in 1920. The cenotaph features the name of Japanese-Canadian soldiers who fought for Canada during the First World War, many of whom fought in the battles of Vimy Ridge and Arras Front in 1917. "I think probably in all honesty he was quite bitter about the treatment during the Second World War, and so it wasn't a fond memory. under the War Measures Act, and interned them for the rest of the Second World War.

Source: CBC News November 12, 2020 01:41 UTC