History - Japans Arrival in Canada

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In Zennosuke Inouye's Land: A Canadian Veterans Affairs Dilemma by Peter Neary, the author discusses the problems that veteran and non-veteran Japanese Canadians faced during the 1940’s because of their race. This article follows the struggle of Zennosuke Inouye, who as a veteran of the First World War, as he first obtains farming property in British Columbia as part of the Soldier’s Settlement Act, 1919, when he and his family were ordered away from their property and his struggle that lasted years to finally re-obtain his property. The issue of racism that is shown in the article is the expulsion orders, which led to the removal of Japanese Canadians from coastal British Columbia and were sent inland. The property, which was left from these former, expulsed, property owners were then sold to provide opportunities for veterans of the Second World War as part of the Veterans’ Land Act, 1942. For approximately six years of struggle, Inouye’s property was then restored to him. What he had to do to re-obtain his land was campaigning, whether it was to the Director of the Soldier Settlement and Veterans’ Land Act to Prime Minister Mackenzie King and, when he finally was able to succeed was through appealing to his former commander Foster and also presenting his case through a Statement of Claim to the Royal Commission on Japanese Canadian Claims (Justice Bird). Through Justice Bird, Inouye got his land restored to him and he was also the only Japanese-Canadian veteran to have his property recovered to him by the Federal Government, which was due to the fact that he was a veteran and a soldier settler After the years of struggle to recover his land, he then decided that he would sell a portion of his land, which at the time was a good time to sell property. My opinion of this article, which I think is demonstrated through the author of this article is that

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