{"id":129597,"date":"2022-11-30T18:39:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T23:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=129597"},"modified":"2022-11-30T18:39:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T23:39:23","slug":"new-denver-wwii-internment-era-building-moved-to-be-preserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/new-denver-wwii-internment-era-building-moved-to-be-preserved\/","title":{"rendered":"New Denver WWII internment-era building moved to be preserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wooden shack that was once used by the government to intern Japanese Canadians during World War II will be restored after a local initiative to preserve New Denver history helped move the entire structure to a new location, saving it from demolition.<\/p>\n<p>Local history preservationist Bob Inwood told KCR News that the structure is intact and remarkably well preserved, despite being built on a mass scale to house <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/japanese-internment-banished-and-beyond-tears-feature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japanese Canadians who were forcibly taken from their homes and put in internment camps<\/a> in the B.C interior in the 1940s. The history of the particular shack, known as \"House of Joyful Tidings,\" plays a role in the history and community that locals and Japanese nationals, who remained in the area beyond the war years, shared.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\"It functioned as a meeting place for the Japanese-Canadian community in the United Church, and at the same time also allowed for some intermingling between the Japanese and Anglo-community\" - Hear the story by KCR on the New Denver building below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wooden shack that was once used by the government to intern Japanese Canadians during World War II will be restored after a local initiative to preserve New Denver history helped move the entire structure to a new location, saving it from demolition. Local history preservationist Bob Inwood told KCR News that the structure is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":129608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,3265],"tags":[21289,16823,6487,19618,20560],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129597"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129628,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129597\/revisions\/129628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129597"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=129597"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=129597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}