The Second World War had a significant impact on Canadian history as the Canadian government revoked many rights and changed the lives of Japanese Canadians who were interred. Between 1941 and 1945, over 21,000 Japanese-Canadians (of whom over two-thirds were born in Canada) were deprived of their rights and freedoms and were forced into internment camps "for their own good". Japanese-Canadians were deemed enemy aliens by the Canadian government the day after Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor. Along with this they lost many rights and their properties were also confiscated, although the Canadian government promised that they would receive their properties back after the war ended. While Japanese-Canadians lived in internment camps, they were forced to suffer the harsh nature and living conditions of the camps. Furthermore, after all these years of internment, the end result was that Japanese-Canadians were granted freedom to move and received a formal apology from the government in 1988. The internment of Japanese-Canadians not only divided families and marked the lives of many innocent civilians, but it also made the Canadian government open their eyes and realize how they treated different ethnicities even though Canada was supposedly a free country. It was on December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, that the Canadian government imposed the War Measures Act that forever changed the lives of over 21,000 Japanese Canadians (Paolini). The War Measures Act allowed the government to impose certain conditions on the population in times of crisis. This gave the government the power to intern Japanese-Canadians during World War II. These Japanese-Canadians were the first tar...... center of paper......panese Canadian internment and racism during the Second World War. "IMAGINATIONS. Np, nd Web. 8 January 2014.."Japanese-Canadian Timeline." Canadiannikkeica RSS. Np, nd Web. 7 January 2014. .Lee, Jeff. "Vancouver Council Apologizes to Japanese-Canadians for support for the 1942 internment." Www.vancouversun.com. Np, nd Web. January 8, 2014. Marsh, James H. "Japanese Internment: Banned and Beyond Tears." The Canadian Encyclopedia, February 23, 2012. Web 7 January 2014. .Samuels, Charlie Life under Occupation, 2011. Print.