People uprooted from Delta (5)

Delta was established by non-Indigenous settlers in 1868. The first farms began in Ladner. A cannery on Deas Island opened in 1873, and another was opened near Westham Island in 1879. The same year, the district municipality of Delta was formed, consisting of three main communities: Ladner, North Delta, and Tsawwassen.

Japanese Canadians were living in the North Delta area by the 1890s as fishers and cannery workers. By 1899, sixteen canneries had been built. In the 1930s, when fishing licenses were restricted, many Japanese Canadians began growing strawberries and opperating poultry farms. Most of these farms were on Horel Road (now 92nd Avenue), Gibson Road (now 90th Avenue) and Bailey Road (now 88th Avenue).

Horel Road was also known as Chicken Mura (Chicken Village) to the families living there. The children in North Delta attended Kennedy School on Gibson Road and Sunbury School in Lower Sunbury.