Japanese Canadian Museum

Citizens of Japanese ancestry sent here during WW2

A multitude of photos and a recreated room at the place that Canadians of Japanese ancestry were sent during WW2. Worth seeing memories of a sad event in our history.

Worth a visit to learn the history

If you are in Kaslo, stop in and learn through written descriptions and lots of pictures the Japanese Canadian history of the area. Also there is one room that’s a replica of the living conditions dur...

Surprising find. Very enlighting and sad, I hope we have learned better.

The walkthrough, on the upper two floors, is focused on the life inside the camps with stories told through recordings that you can listen to under speaker cones and that was well done. The exhibit co...

Interesting Exhibits of the Japanese Canadian Experience during WWII in Kaslo

As a Japanese American whose entire extended family was incarcerated during World War II, I was quite interested in seeing this museum, which is really parts of two upper floors of the Langham Cultura...

Interesting and informative

This site was very well laid out with lots of information, artifacts, and descriptions. The interpreter answered all our questions and was very knowledgeable of this time period. I would suggest tha...