Join us February 18, 2026 at 7:00pm for the launch of the latest book from the Past Wrongs, Future Choices collective.

In September 1945, Canada proposed exiling Japanese Canadians to Japan, a country devastated by war. Thousands who had experienced internment and dispossession were now at risk of banishment.

In Challenging Exile, Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross detail the circumstances and personalities behind the exile. They follow the lives of families facing government orders that uprooted them from their homes, stripped them of their livelihoods and possessions, and proposed to exile them from Canada. And they analyze the court case in which lawyers and judges grappled with the meaning of citizenship, race, and rights in times of war and its aftermath.

Check out the Challenging Exile book review by The Globe and Mail here.

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Authors

Eric M. Adams is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of
Alberta and has written widely on constitutional law, legal history,
employment law, human rights, and legal education. He lives in
Edmonton.

Jordan Stanger-Ross is a professor of history at the University of
Victoria and is the author of numerous works on the history of
migration and race in North America. He lives in Victoria.

Moderator

Masumi Izumi

Professor at Doshisha University and a leading scholar of
Japanese American and Japanese Canadian history.