... Board of Review, who was in charge of the immigration investigation, held its first public hearing in Vancouver. These public hearings calmed down the many protests of the terrified anti-Japanese locals so much that "when the board's findings were published early in 1939, the report scarcely attracted notice."(Ward 461) In the summer of 1940 Alderman Halford Wildson headed ... . Granastein and Johnson find through two books, Within the Barbed Wire Fence and Hawaii Under the Rising Sun, that Japanese Canadians had "a blind faith in Japan's eventual victory"(Granastein and Johnson 111) and ...

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... suspicion, and fear, which blanketed the entire western world. Threats real and imagined existed everywhere. Since confederation, anti-oriental sentiment has been a part of white Canadian society. Japanese-Canadians were specifically stigmatized for their perceived unassailability, economic competitiveness, high birth rate, and a lingering loyalty to Japan (Ward 459). These are merely stereotypes and are debatably reflections ... of reality. However, in the wake of renewed Japanese imperialism, such stereotypes became very prominent in the British Columbia community. Men like Archdeacon...

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