People uprooted from Port Coquitlam (18)

Port Coquitlam, on the Pitt and Fraser Rivers, was established as non-Indigenous farmland in 1853. The construction of Pitt River Road in 1862 connected the area to New Westminster. In 1911, the Canadian Pacific Railway relocated its freight terminus to Port Moody, and the industrial district surrounding the Pacific Coast Terminal developed into Port Coquitlam, which was incorporated in 1913. Although agriculture remained important, railways employed most of the workforce before and during the Second World War.

By 1929, two Japanese Canadian families lived in Port Coquitlam. Starting in the mid-1920s, the Mitsui family operated a seventeen-acre poultry and vegetable farm. After a fire destroyed their home, Masumi Mitsui rebuilt it in the early 1930s. The Suyehiro family had a farm on Backditch Road in Port Coquitlam.