The Farnham Nikkei Memorial Project welcomes you! We are a community-led research and advocacy project working to promote a greater understanding of the history of Japanese Canadians in Quebec. We are in the process of installing a memorial in Farnham, Quebec, to commemorate the experiences of the hundreds of Japanese Canadians forcibly relocated there following the closure of WWII internment camps in British Columbia in 1946.
Our researchers have compiled a list of Japanese Canadians that passed through Farnham from multiple sources. Names were derived from the Library and Archives Canada, Department of Labour Fonds, Japanese Division (RG3627 32 1959 “Quebec – Farnham Hostel and Surplus” and RG3627 32 1959 “Fingal and Farnham Hostels”); various files from Landscapes of Injustice and interviews with Japanese Canadian survivors from Farnham. While we have yet to locate a comprehensive list, each name was cited by at least two sources. We will be unable to list each person on the physical memorial, but we may eventually include a list of individuals here on this website.
Should you have additions, corrections or concerns, please contact us as soon as possible at najcquebec@gmail.com.
Territorial Acknowledgement
The Farnham Memorial Project and the Quebec Chapter of the National Association of Japanese Canadians acknowledge that their work takes place on unceded Indigenous lands in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Farnham, and across Quebec. Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, has long been known as a gathering place for neighbouring Indigenous groups, and today is home to a diverse population of Indigenous and settler peoples. Farnham is located on N’dakina and Wabanaki (Dawnland Confederacy) land (native-land.ca). As Japanese Canadians, we recognize that our own experiences of dispossession and uprooting have taken place in the context of longstanding and ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples.