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21-562: Lemon Creek can refer to: Lemon Creek, British Columbia , Canada, a village in the Slocan Valley Lemon Creek, Juneau , Alaska, USA, a neighborhood, noted for its state prison Lemon Creek (Alaska) , USA, a waterway Lemon Creek (St. Joseph River tributary) , a stream in Michigan Lemon Creek (Staten Island) , New York, a stream [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

42-597: A Gentlemen's Agreement intended to curb further Japanese immigration to Canada. Influenced by the American Immigration Act of 1924 , members of the British Columbia parliament pushed for a total federal ban on immigration in the 1920s. After several years of negotiations, Japan eventually agreed to reduce its immigration quota under the Gentleman's Agreement to only 150 persons per year. On January 14, 1942,

63-551: A couple of years. In 1904, the site also reverted to the government. Sometimes called Lemon City, this name was also used for a work camp that existed during the Canadian Pacific Railway 's construction of the Columbia and Kootenay Railway (C&K). Nothing more is known of an access road being built to Oro in 1937. The creek mouth townsite became better known as Lemon Creek Siding, or just Lemon Siding. However, Lemonton

84-498: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lemon Creek, British Columbia The settlement was named after the creek, which recognized Robert E. Lemon, a prominent Nelson merchant. In 1892, a substantial bridge was built across the creek, as part of the trail up the Slocan Valley . At the time, the naming of the creek likely acknowledged Lemon's contribution toward funding

105-606: Is run by the National Association of Japanese Canadians. In addition, to address the more systemic racism that led to the plan and later justifications of the effort to remove "all people of Japanese racial origin" from Canadian territory, the redress settlement included the establishment of the Race Relations Foundation and challenges to the War Measures Act . The Prime Minister also offered a formal apology in

126-641: The Canadian government used the War Measures Act to brand Japanese-Canadians enemy aliens and to categorize them as security threats. There were 20,881 Japanese placed in internment camps and road camps in British Columbia, and prisoner-of-war camps in Ontario. Families were also sent as forced labourers to farms throughout the prairies. Three quarters of them were already citizens in Canada. A parallel situation occurred in

147-696: The Japanese numerals with the Japanese word for generation ( sei , 世): The first Japanese settler in Canada was Manzo Nagano , who lived in Victoria, British Columbia in 1877 (a mountain in the province was named after him in 1977). The first generation or Issei , mostly came to Vancouver Island , the Fraser Valley and Rivers Inlet from fishing villages on the islands of Kyūshū and Honshū between 1877 and 1928. A Japanese community newspaper for Vancouver residents

168-520: The House of Commons and the certificate of acknowledgement of injustices of the past, which was sent to each Japanese Canadian whose rights had been stripped, incarcerated, dispossessed and forcibly displaced. The younger generation of Japanese-Canadians born in the late 20th century are mostly Yonsei , the fourth generation. Many Yonsei are of mixed racial descent. According to Statistics Canada 's 2001 census of population information, Japanese-Canadians were

189-405: The National Association of Japanese Canadians succeeded in negotiating a redress settlement with the government at the time, under the leadership of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney . The settlement included $ 21,000 for each individual directly affected, which was by 1993 almost 18,000 survivors. The federal government also provided a community endowment fund to assist in rebuilding the community, which

210-660: The United States, the Japanese American internment . The property and homes of Japanese Canadians living in the province of British Columbia were seized and sold off without their consent in 1943. The funds were used to pay for their internment. They also had to "pay rent" for living in the internment shacks that they were assigned. In 1945, after the war, as part of the continued effort to remove all Japanese Canadians from British Columbia, Prime Minister William Lyon MacKenzie King had his cabinet pass Orders-in-Council to extend

231-580: The creek, at the confluence with Summit Creek. Primarily to serve gold mining in the area, it was called Summit or just Lemon Creek. If a functional access trail ever existed, by 1901 this was no longer the case. In 1904, the abandoned site reverted to the government. In 1898, the Oro Gold Mining and Milling Co. surveyed the Oro townsite even farther up the creek, at the confluence with Crusader Creek. A sawmill, stamp mill, mine office, and assay office existed for

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252-538: The late 1970s and the 1980s, documents on the Japanese Canadian internment were released, and redress was sought by the National Association of Japanese Canadians, an organization representing Japanese Canadians nationally that was headed by Art Miki from Winnipeg. In 1986, it was shown that Japanese Canadians had lost $ 443 million during the internment. There were 63% of Canadians who supported redress and 45% who favoured individual compensation. On September 22, 1988,

273-557: The mine closed. Intermittent production 1896–1941 totalled 297 tonnes, yielding 407,604 grams of silver and 29,455 grams of gold. Built 1942–43 on the leased Harris Ranch, Lemon Creek was the largest of the nine West Kootenay internment camps for Japanese Canadians during World War II , following their removal from the British Columbia Coast. Other West Kootenay internment centres were at Slocan , New Denver , Rosebery , Sandon , Kaslo , Greenwood and Midway. The station

294-508: The powers of the War Measures Act and give Japanese Canadians two "options": to be relocated to another province "East of the Rockies" or to go "back" to Japan though most were born in Canada and had never been to Japan. After organized protests by against their treatment, they were finally given the right to vote in 1949. Mobility restrictions were lifted in 1949. Until 1948, Japanese-Canadians, both Issei and Canadian-born Nisei , were denied

315-413: The project. In 1896, a townsite was staked at the mouth of the creek. The next year, about a mile up the creek, another settlement with a hotel was established. Named Del Monte, it was the place at which the proposed railway line was expected to cross. Instead that year, the line crossed near the creek mouth, and Del Monte disappeared. A further townsite surveyed that year was 24 kilometres (15 mi) up

336-471: The province of British Columbia , which hosts the largest Japanese community in the country with the majority of them living in and around Vancouver . In 2016, there were 121,485 Japanese Canadians throughout Canada. The term Nikkei (日系) was coined by sociologists and encompasses all of the world's Japanese immigrants across generations. Japanese descendants living overseas have special names for each of their generations. These are formed by combining one of

357-515: The right to vote. Those born in the 1950s and 1960s in Canada are mostly Sansei , the third generation. Sansei usually have little knowledge of the Japanese language . Over 75% of the Sansei have married non-Japanese. Nisei and Sansei generally identify themselves not as fully Japanese but as Canadians first who happen to have Japanese ancestry. Since 1967, the second wave of immigrants were usually highly educated and resided in urban areas. In

378-428: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lemon_Creek&oldid=879671927 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

399-668: Was 4.2 kilometres (2.6 mi) north of Perrys, and 8.2 kilometres (5.1 mi) south of Slocan on the C&;K. The final passenger train was about 1957, and the line closed to all traffic in 1993. 49°42′00″N 117°29′00″W  /  49.70000°N 117.48333°W  / 49.70000; -117.48333 Japanese Canadian Japanese Canadians ( 日系カナダ人 , Nikkei Kanadajin , French : Canadiens japonais ) are Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Canadians are mostly concentrated in Western Canada , especially in

420-662: Was first launched in 1897. Around the same time, the Fraser River Japanese Fishermen's Association Hospital in Steveston was established after the local hospital refused to admit and treat Japanese immigrants. In 1907, the Asiatic Exclusion League was established in Vancouver and, by September of that year, led a mob of rioters who vandalized both Chinese and Japanese neighbourhoods. In 1908, Canada enacted

441-483: Was sometimes used. A sawmill operated. Nowadays, several scattered residences and a campground exist. The Chapleau property, about 6 kilometres (4 mi) southeast of Slocan, was one of the first active properties in the Lemon Creek area. In 1896, the initial shipment of ore yielded 435 grams of gold and 11,788 grams of silver. Until 1900, development was rapid and an aerial tramway and stamp mill were erected. In 1904,

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