A long-term care home in Vancouver has been renamed to remove the legacy of a politician who fueled anti-Japanese sentiment during World War II. The former George Pearson Centre is now called the Oak Care Centre, a decision made by Vancouver Coastal Health after the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association expressed concerns about the original name.
The Vancouver Coastal Health authority says it has changed the name of a long-term care home that was named after George Pearson, a B.C. politician who stoked anti-Japanese sentiment during the Second World War.
The facility opened in 1952, and the authority says that in 2021 the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens’ Association “expressed concern” about the centre’s name because Pearson led the charge “against the rights and enfranchisement of racialized people, including Japanese Canadians, in the 1940s.”
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