[ssiguy]

In Vancouver a very notable one............the Japanese.

Vancouver once had a vibrant and large Little Tokyo district before WW11. Then the war hit and the Japanese, regardless of how long they or their family had been in Canada, were shipped off to internment camps for the rest of the war. The internment camps were hundreds of KM away and they were not allowed to leave them for nearly any reason. They were harsh and unpleasant and when they were finally released after Japan defeat, they found that the government had confiscated all their properties and businesses and they never got them back.

Due to this, many simply packed up their bags and moved to Japan even if they had never even lived there. Today Little Tokyo is just a disjointed single block and you would not even know it exists unless someone pointed it out.