Going Back in Time….

It's April 1st!

Welcome to a new month.

If you don’t mind, I would like you to go back in time with me to the events that made history on this day.

Let’s start the abolishment of the Internment policy imposed on Japanese during World War II. Although the war ended in 1945, thousands of Japanese Canadians continued to face severe limitations on movements and civil rights until April 1st, 1949 when the government of Canada officially ended the restrictions. Before then, given the War Measures Act, over 22,000 individual, which were mostly Canadian citizens were forcibly removed from coastal British Columbia. However, the lifting of this restrictions in 1949 finally allowed Japanese Canadians to return to west coast and regain fundamental rights like voting.

On April 1st, 1973, Project Tiger was launched at Jim Corbett National Park. This moves was as a result of the conservational effort to save endangered Bengal Tigers. It was initiated by the government of India under the Wildlife Protection Act, and was led by Kailash Sankhia who became its first director. The project later introduced a “core-buffer” strategy, where core zones were strictly protected for wildlife and the surrounding buffer zones allowed for sustainable human activity.

Another interesting find I made about April 1st is that Netherlands, on this day 2001, became the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, granting gay and lesbian couples the same right as heterosexual couples, which includes adoption. The groundbreaking law was passed by the Dutch parliament and it took effect at the midnight when four couples were married in Amsterdam.

Yeah! That’s all for April 1st!

Enjoy the rest of the month