Defence Zone Map | Masumi Mitsui | From Vimy to Juno: Canadians Through Two World Wars | From Vimy to Juno: Canadians Through Two World Wars

This map, printed in a newspaper in 1942, shows the Coast Defence Zone the "region to be cleared of male Japanese of military age." The map, headlined "WHERE JAPS MUST MOVE OUT", shows a shaded area of the BC coast which is to be "cleared of male Japanese of military age. The order was issued from Ottawa." The region, defined in the regulation as a "protected area," covers "the whole coast to the 'summit line' of the Cascades [and includes] the towns of Hope, on the TransCanada Highway, and Terrace, on the C.N.R. Northern line."

A black and white hand-drawn map of coastal British Columbia. Arrows indicate the extent of the defence zone from which Japanese Canadians were to be evicted. — (*The Vancouver Daily Province*, 3 February 1942.)

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