People uprooted from Bamfield (22)

Bamfield, located in the traditional territory of the Huu-ay-aht First Nation in Barkley Sound, was established as a fishing and fur trading outpost by non-Indigenous settlers in the 1800s. The Bamfield Cannery, built on Grappler Creek in 1919, burned down in the early 1920s. Bamfield was the terminus site of the trans-Pacific telegraph cable from 1902 to 1959. After the cable station shut down, the building became a marine sciences centre.

Ten Japanese Canadian families lived nearby (two in Bamfield Inlet and eight in Grappler Inlet), some co-owning subdivided land in Grappler Inlet. Heijiro Rocky Hiraoka, a resident since 1918, built his house (now Seabeam Lodge) at Port Desire around 1935. The Uyede family built their family home (now Cohoe Lodge) near the east dock in the 1920s. Many Japanese Canadians living in Bamfield were fishermen and boat builders, and many worked in the nearby salteries and canneries on Barkley Sound. About forty fishing boats operated year-round in Bamfield, with up to one hundred operating in the summers.