People uprooted from Sidney (13)

Sidney, first inhabited by the Straits Salish Peoples, was established by non-Indigenous settlers as an agricultural settlement in the 1860s and 1870s. In 1891, the Brethour brothers incorporated their farms into the Township of Sidney. The Victoria and Sidney Railway (V&S) opened in 1894, and by the early 1900s several businesses had been established; these included the Brackman-Ker flour mill (1877), a sawmill (1892), and the Saanich Canning Company (1905).

In 1927, the Baba family settled in Sidney and lived in a six-room bungalow on Fourth Street where Tsuru operated a barbershop. The Yanai family lived on Schools X Road in North Saanich, where Hisakichi worked as a farm labourer. The Yanais also owned a four-room bungalow and garage on the corner of Marine Drive and Amelia Street. Chusaku Maioka lived alone in Sidney in a small shack on the beach on Third Street, made from driftwood (case file). The 1931 Census lists the population of Sidney as roughly 2,659, with nineteen people identified as Japanese Canadian.