People uprooted from North Vancouver (8)

North Vancouver, along Burrard Inlet, was established as a sawmill community by Pioneer Mills in 1863. In 1865, the sawmill was sold to Sewell Moody who expanded the settlement and named it Moodyville. The District of North Vancouver was incorporated in 1891, and the City of North Vancouver incorporated in 1907. North Vancouver had absorbed Moodyville by 1915. Logging, fishing, and shipbuilding were important industries in the area.

A Japanese garden and teahouse was built in 1910 on land donated to Reverend Goro Kaburagi, publisher of a Vancouver Japanese-language newspaper. The gardens closed in 1913, and the teahouse was moved to the Horticultural Society grounds and renamed Scout Hall. In 1912, the Yada family opened a successful grocery store in the Ridgeway neighbourhood on 4th Street and Queensbury; it later moved to 701 Keith Road. North of 28th Street, a Shinto Shrine operated in the 1930s. By the 1940s, North Vancouver was home to many Japanese Canadian families engaged in the community and labour market.