1. Chapter 8: Interactions Among Communities
Japanese and Jewish
By: Alexander Kibziy

2. Goal for the Japanese Community
How have Japanese-Canadians interacted among communities in Canada?
Most Japanese immigrants were men. Many of the Japanese-Canadians were discriminated or bought so they can work for their landlords. People discriminated not only Japanese immigrants, but also from other countries. Japanese-Canadians had little farm field to work on and to settle in, but some people were also as fishermen, miners, some built roads, and cut wood. During World War II Japanese-Canadians were moved to internment camps where they would work every day. (An internment camp is where Japanese Canadians were imprisoned from 1941 to 1949) After they got out all their belongings were lost. In 1988, the government gave $21,000 to the survivors from the camps to pay back for the lost things. Even thought the government payed back money, they didn’t care much for the Japanese-Canadians before. Also some people didn’t want Japanese-Canadians working for them in stores, and since there were lots of them, people called it an ‘Asian Flood’.

3. Japanese Community Why did Japanese people come to Canada?
The two waves of Japanese immigration to Canada, separated by nearly 100 years, share striking similarities. Begun in 1877 to 1908 with the arrival of Manzo Nagano, a 23-year-old fisherman from Nagasaki and the first official immigrant from Japan. And the second wave was in Young Japanese men began crossing the Pacific in search of economic opportunities. Japanese immigrants soon found steady employment on the beet farms of western Canada. Success there led to work in other areas of the burgeoning Canadian economy, including logging and coal mining. By the end of the 19th century, Japanese workers turned to the service economy in the restaurant, hotel and garment industries.

4. Japanese-Canadians (Continuation)
Why did Japanese-Canadians come to Canada?
The Japanese government treated their people poorly and didn’t give a lot of good things to the economy. Japanese people immigrated to Canada for a better government and a better life. When the Japanese were arriving, the government sometimes took land from First Nations and gave it to immigrants to live on. Many other young Japanese men left their homes to avoid mandatory military service for the government. Japanese immigrants saw opportunities with both Canadian companies and in starting their own businesses. Many of the new operations focused on bringing Japanese culture to the families of the original immigrants and white Canadians interested in Asian lifestyles and ideas.

5. Japanese Community How did people treat Japanese all over the world?
Fisherman and farmers, some of their own accord, some hired by Western companies as contract laborers, were the first to leave. By the end of the 19th century, Japanese workers turned to the service economy in the restaurant, hotel and garment industries. In Japan, many young men were picked out to go to war. Those people had to leave their families, and some never saw their families again. Japanese people didn’t move to much countries, but the most immigrated in Canada and the U.S. In some countries they found good settlement, good jobs and had a better life living in that country. An example is from the 1880’s, Japanese immigration to Hawaii and the western states made the Japanese one of the largest Asian ethnic groups in the United States. Though mostly blocked by legislation between 1924 and 1965, some Japanese immigration continued through those years. Japanese Americans completely integrated and became very successful in government, business, the sciences, and cultural enterprises.

6. Fun Facts
By 1914, 10,000 people of Japanese ancestry had settled permanently in Canada.
More than 90 per cent of the people of Japanese descent live in three provinces: British Columbia-42 per cent, Ontario-35 per cent and Alberta-14 per cent.

7. Goal for Jewish Community
How have Jewish immigrants interacted among communities in Canada?
Jewish immigrants came to Canada to not be discriminated. Many people were against them and showed anti-Semitism. Non-Jewish people denied Jewish people housing and jobs, they didn’t let them in public places like a pool. Unlike most immigrants to Canada, Jews did not come from a place where they were the majority cultural group. Subsequently Jews lived, sometimes for many centuries, as minorities in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Jews settled in the British colonies to the south and after the incorporation of New France into the British Empire began also to settle in Lower Canada. By 1768, the number of Jews in Montréal had grown to the point where they decided to establish Canada's first synagogue, Sheath Israel. By the late 18th century Jews had also settled in Québec City and other parts of Lower Canada. It was hard to do all that and it took a long time and over time people still sometimes discriminated the Jews, but eventually stopped.

8. Jewish Community Why did Jewish people come to Canada?
The first Jews immigrated to Canada in the 1750's. They too had to compromise their Jewish identity in order to gain entrance into the New World. Canada was under rule of the French colonizers. So Jews, and in fact all non-Catholics, were prohibited from settling. Some Jews side-stepped these restrictions by converting to Catholicism. People Discriminated the Jews for non-Semitism. (Non-Semitism is prejudice or hatred of Jewish people.) The first significant wave of Jewish immigrants to make Canada their home arrived in Most of these Jewish settlers emigrated from the United States and settled in urban centers, the majority in Montreal. The 1831 census recorded 197 Jewish residents in Upper and Lower Canada. By 1851 the number had increased to 451. Most were middle class and well educated; they were involved in trade and contributed to the economic growth of the country.

9. Jewish Community How did people treat Jews all over the world?
Occurred on 16 August 1933 at the Christie Pits playground in Toronto, Ontario. The riot can be understood in the context of the Great Depression, anti-Semitism, Swastika clubs and parades and resentment of "foreigners" in Toronto, and the rise of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany in Even thought this only event happened once in Canada, but it happened all over the world many times. People discriminated Jews a lot, and because of that they immigrated to Canada for a better life. According to 1991 Census, the Canadian Jewish population today is estimated at 356,000. The largest Jewish populations exist in Toronto, with 162,000, Montreal with 98,000, Vancouver, with 25,000. Jewish immigration to Canada continues: 30,000 Jews entered Canada from 1981 to 1991.

10. Fun Facts
1. Most Jewish immigrants from Europe, but some still came from Israel.
Although the Jewish population increased relatively fast at the end of the 19th century and in the first decades of the 20th, it stagnated as of the 1930s when it represented about 1.5% of the total population of Canada.
3. Between 1931 and 1939 only about 5,000 were Jewish - approximately 3% of the total number of immigrants.

11. Bibliography
Many Gifts Book