Raymond Moriyama, who built his first structure in a B.C. internment camp during the Second World War and went on to design some of Canada's most iconic buildings, has died at the age of 93.
Moriyama & Teshima Architects commented on the proposal in a, noting that the brief given to Moriyama by the Minister of Public Works in 1964 read: "Design an institution of international significance."
Between 1942 and 1949, more than 22,000 Japanese Canadians were forcibly removed from the B.C. coast and incarcerated in camps. Japanese Canadians in B.C. were labelled as enemy aliens during the Second World War despite many of them having lived in Canada for generations. The Bay Farm Internment Camp held 1,376 Japanese Canadians by the end of 1942 and was one of the key internment camps in B.C.'s Slocan Valley. Moriyama attended Pine Crescent School in Bay Farm and recalled building his first structure there — a tree house.
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