Cholera broke out in many of the ships that were commissioned to repatriate more than 6.6 million Japanese people at the end of World War Two. Footage believed to have been filmed by the United ...

GHQ determined that ships carrying Japanese returnees with just one cholera patient must quarantine for a full 14 days—more than twice the period required under an international treaty at the time.

and the cholera epidemic. At the beginning of June, the Carrick, a ship that had come over from Ireland, reached Quebec with a few feverish immigrants on board. Jean-Jacques Lartigue, the Bishop ...