The Tashme Internment camp was one of the largest internment camps in the province and the closest to the coast, Ellan said. An interior look of the Sunshine Valley Tashme Museum outside of Hope, B.C. The museum sits in what was a butcher shop in the Tashme internment camp. (Sunshine Valley Tashme Museum/Facebook)Ellan's museum, which sits in the camp's old butcher shop, is one way of keeping history alive. Saimoto said there was anti-Asian racism on one of the Highway Legacy signs earlier this year.

Source: CBC News August 11, 2020 03:08 UTC