Editing Pierre Berton (section)

==Fame as a journalist==
In 1947 he went on an expedition to the [[Nahanni River]] with pilot [[Russ Baker (pilot)|Russ Baker]]. Berton's account for the ''Vancouver Sun'' was picked up by [[International News Service]], making him a noted adventure-travel writer.<ref>John Condit (1984) ''Wings over the West: Russ Baker and the Rise of Pacific Western Airlines'', [[Harbour Publishing]] {{ISBN|0-920080-49-9}}</ref> On 1 February 1948, an article by Berton appeared in ''[[Maclean's]]'' under the title "They're Only Japs", which was the first account of the [[internment of Japanese Canadians]] to appear in the Canadian media that provided interviews with some of the interned people.{{sfn|McKillop|2011|pp=228–229}} Most notably, Berton interviewed Marie Suzuki, a second-generation Japanese Canadian school-teacher whose career had been ruined by the internment.{{sfn|McKillop|2011|p=229}} Berton was quite critical of the decision made by Prime Minister [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] to order the internment on 24 February 1942 that saw all [[Japanese Canadians]] interned, regardless if they were immigrants or Canadian-born, unlike the case-by-case policy with interning [[German Canadians]] and the partial internment of [[Italian Canadians]] that saw all Italian immigrants interned.{{sfn|McKillop|2011|pp=228–229}} Berton's article was also the first to note that greed was a major factor behind the demand for the internment as many of the people in British Columbia who agitated for total internment of all Japanese Canadians were very interested in seizing their assets for themselves.{{sfn|McKillop|2011|pp=228–229}}