Greenwood, BC is home to Canada's best tap water, a history of being the first place to house interred Japanese during the WWII, and real estate. Skip to content.

With a population of 727 people, Greenwood, B.C., is Canada’s smallest city. And this week, the small community, located two hours southeast of Kelowna and near the U.S. border, is celebrating ...

Greenwood was used as a camp for Japanese-Canadians amid the installation of the internment policy in 1941, and the population ballooned with the arrival of 1,000 people who were detained there.

Internment camps inland. The family was first sent to Greenwood, B.C., the site of a former copper mine, where they slept on the floor of the tiny shack, where they were forced to live.

The government’s action comes on the 80th anniversary of the first arrivals of Japanese Canadians to the Greenwood, Kaslo, New Denver, Slocan City and Sandon internment camps in 1942.

British Columbia is giving $100 million in funding to address the historical wrongs it caused when it helped to intern thousands of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War.