クアタイアスキー・コーブから追放された (23)

Quathiaski Cove, on the southwest side of Quadra Island, was established by non-Indigenous settlers in the 1880s. Prior to 1903, Quadra Island was part of the Valdes [Valdez] group: three islands treated as one (distinct from Valdes Island near Nanaimo). The islands were known colloquially as Big (Quadra), Middle (Sonora), and Small (Maurelle) Valdes. For many years, Quathiaski Cove was not on a main steamship route and settlers had to travel to Comox for deliveries.

The primary industries on Quadra Island were mining, logging, and fishing, with some agriculture development. By 1904, Quadra Island had two post offices, a school, a hotel, lumber camps, mills, and a church—most of which were in the nearby settlement of Heriot Bay. The Quathiaski Canning Company salmon cannery (formerly Pidcock) opened in 1904. In 1938 the cannery was sold to BC Packers Ltd. but it continued to employ up to 300 island residents until the plant burned down in 1941. It was never rebuilt.

Japanese Canadians were living in Quathiaski Cove by 1915 and five Japanese Canadian families had settled in the area by 1925. Several of the Japanese Canadian families owned property and businesses, including a boat works. Shigekazu Matsunaga owned a fishing boat, the Soyokaze, which was seized and sold during the uprooting, but after the war he tracked it down, repurchased it, and began fishing with it again; this is the only known case of a Japanese fisherman regaining possession of a confiscated boat.