8,000
hospital
Steveston
Hastings Mill
Work
Powell Street
Farming, fishing, logging and lumber
Buddhist
Little Tokyo
1926
The community where Japanese lived on Powell street became known as this.
By 1907, the Japanese immigrant population grew to this number.
In 1897, the people of Steveston built and operated this.
This was the only business to hire the Issei.
Few Japanese could read or write, but they knew how to do this really hard.
The Asahi baseball team won it's first championship in this year.
The Japanese community built this temple.
The Issei worked in the following jobs.
This area where the Japanese lived was considered a ghetto.
This became the second largest Japanese settlement in British Columbia.
