| Summary: | This study discusses the influence of history on identity for those who are involved with
the Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall (also know as the VJLS). The
historical significance of a recognized landmark such as the VJLS creates a unique atmosphere
that allows the past to be very much part of the present. In addition to many types of
commemoration, memory and imagination provide links to the past. The community at the
VJLS was very diverse including both recent immigrants and those with family connections to
the Internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II. As a result, the feeling of a
connection to the past was discussed in many different ways. These discussions are used in this
study to explore the question of what it means to be Japanese Canadian and to be Canadian. At
the VJLS, the history of Japanese Canadians is shown to belong to all Canadians rather than just
to a separate ethic group within Canada. === Arts, Faculty of === Anthropology, Department of === Graduate
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