Patricia E. Roy. The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941–67. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 2007. Pp. vii, 390. Cloth $98.00, paper $36.95

Although East Asians have had a fairly long presence in Canada, they have not always been accepted as full members of Canadian society. Indeed, as Patricia E. Roy demonstrates, inclusivity was a long process for the Chinese and the Japanese in Canada.

In this third book in Roy's trilogy on the “Oriental Question” in Canada, readers are presented with the history of the treatment of Asians in Canada from the World War II period to 1967. Roy builds upon her previous works, A White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858–1914 (1989) and The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914–41 (2003) to create a comprehensive historiography of the ways in which Asians have been a part of and placed apart from the mainstream of Canadian society.

Roy begins with a significant event that...