Canada's first nisei, Katuji Oya (centre), born in 1889, with his father Washiji and younger brother Jiro, born in 1890. (photo: Mrs. J. Oya, London)
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Workers at Hastings Sawmill in Vancouver, in 1892. The man, second from the left, was the first Japanese to be hired. This mill located near Powell Street was the major employer of Japanese labourers.(photo: Vancouver Public Library)
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Early logging near New Westminster,B.C. 1900. (photo: Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre)
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Early salmon fishing boat requiring an oarsman or "puller". (photo: Vancouver Public Library)
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Nikkei coalminers at Canadian Collieries, 1920, Cumberland, B.C. Some of these men were killed in the 1922 explosion. (photo: Tatsumi Iwasa, Vancouver, B.C.)
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Many Japanese worked seasonally at a whaling station at Rose Harbour in the Queen Charlotte Islands. (photo: UBC Archives, Vancouver)
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Nikkei sawmill workers at Englewood, B.C. on Vancouver Island. Later labour unrest resulted in all the Japanese being fired. (photo: Charles Kadota, Vancouver)
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The Royston Lumber Company was purchased by a Nikkei in 1916. It combined sawmill and logging operations until the forced removal in 1942. (photo: Koichi Kaminishi, Kamloops, B.C.)
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Growing and selling vegetables in Steveston.
(photo: National Museum)
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