Nominated and provincially recognized historic places in British Columbia, as identified through the Japanese Canadian Historic Places Recognition Project.
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School, Church, Temple, House, Hall, Courthouse, Jail, Group of buildings, Window, Doorway, Roofline, etc.
Building & Building Features
ON
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Garden, Park, Ceremonial & Sacred Spaces, Refuges, Traditional Land Use Farm, Forestry, Mine Industrial and Agricultural Land Use, Trail, Fossils, Tree, Riverbed, Mountain, Lake, etc.
Cultural Landscapes & Geographic Features
ON
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Fountain, Sculpture, Flagpole, Mural, Shrine, Monument, Cenotaph, Headstone, Plaque, Cemetery, Ship wreck, Plane wreck, etc.
Events, Objects/Collections, memorials & Cemeteries
ON
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Streets, Heritage Conservation Areas, Neighbourhoods, Islands, Cities, Significant Concentrations
Streetscapes & Districts
ON
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Bridge, Bench, Vehicle, Gate, Aircraft, Grain Elevator, Gazebo, etc.
Town Planning & Engineering Works/Structures
ON
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Provincially recognized under s. 18 of the Heritage Conservation Act
Recognized Sites
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On February 24, 1942, the Federal government issued Order in Council PC-1486 ordering over 22,000 men, women and children of Japanese descent out of the "Protected Area", which included the islands lying off the Pacific coast of British Columbia, and extended inland from the coast for 100 miles (160 km).
Protected Area