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Suspect Properties.
- Source :
- Journal of Planning History; Nov2016, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p271-289, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- In 1943, after Japanese Canadians were uprooted from coastal British Columbia, federal officials commenced selling all of their property without consent. This article argues that the dispossession of Japanese-Canadian-owned property has an urban history that has been largely overlooked, as arguments for the dispossession emerged from the Vancouver municipal government, which focused federal attention on the historic Japanese-Canadian neighborhood in the city. Federal officials seized upon the condition of a small number of deteriorating “slum” properties as a justification of wholesale dispossession. An initiative town planners in Vancouver thus helped to motivate the wholesale dispossession of Japanese Canadians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15385132
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Planning History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 118654524
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513215627837