Some years ago, when I was writing “The Drive“, I came across a lot of material about the internment of the Japanese in British Columbia in 1942. There were poignant stories of very popular shops having to close, of the missing athletes and scholars at Britannia who simply didn’t show up one morning, of visits by east-enders to the PNE to say goodbye to their friends and neighbours who were being held there before being shipped off to the Interior, of lives and families suddenly disrupted beyond imagining.
The Nikkei Museum on Burnaby has an exhibit starting this weekend called “Broken Promises” about the lives of Japanese in BC in the 1940s.
Grounded in research from Landscapes of Injustice – a 7 year multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, community engaged project, this exhibit explores the dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s. It illuminates the loss of home and the struggle for justice of one racially marginalized community. The story unfolds by following seven narrators. Learn about life for Japanese Canadians in Canada before war, the administration of their lives during and after war ends, and how legacies of dispossession continue to this day.”
Looks interesting.
Jak's View of Vancouver v.3 
Also the Kitsilano High school catchment1 area.
Both Britannia and Kitsilano schools still have larger picture frames with 40 or more smaller pictures of (the few) grade 12 graduates [ in those days, most left at grade 10 ] on their walls including the 1941 students, most of whom pictured were Japanese faces and names.
I wonder if Kits principal Sugimoto noted or recorded them in the 1970s when he was head of Kits school
Historical photos of the halls might still show the pictures, but they were taken down by the 1980s.