Editing David Suzuki (section)

==Early life==

Suzuki has a twin sister named Marcia, as well as two other siblings, Geraldine (now known as Aiko) and Jenny. They were born to Setsu Nakamura and Kaoru Carr Suzuki in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Suzuki's maternal and paternal grandparents had immigrated to Canada at the beginning of the 20th century from Hiroshima and Aichi Prefecture respectively. 

A third-generation Japanese-Canadian ("Canadian Sansei"), Suzuki and his family suffered Japanese Canadian internment in British Columbia during the World War II|Second World War from when he was six (1942) until after the war ended. In June 1942, the government sold the Suzuki family's dry-cleaning business, then interned Suzuki, his mother, and two sisters in a camp at Slocan, British Columbia|Slocan in the British Columbia Interior. His father had been sent to a labour camp in Solsqua two months earlier. Suzuki's sister, Jenny, was born in the internment camp. 

After the war, Suzuki's family, like other Japanese Canadian families, was forced to move east of the Rocky Mountains|Rockies. The Suzukis moved to Islington, Ontario, Leamington, Ontario, and London, Ontario. David Suzuki, in interviews, has many times credited his father for having interested him in and sensitized him to nature.

Suzuki attended Mill Street Elementary School and Grade 9 at Leamington Secondary School before moving to London, where he attended London Central Secondary School, eventually winning the election to become Students' Council President in his last year there by more votes than all of the other candidates combined.