A Small Act of Resistance

3rd November 1944: Canadian POWs held in Japan must endure hard labour and brutal conditions - but their spirit is not broken

These weary and emaciated Canadians were prisoners of war from December of 1941, when they fought the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, to August of 1945, when Japan surrendered.

It was now almost three years since the Canadian troops that had been based in Hong Kong in December 1941 had been captured by the Japanese. They had endured much in that time and…