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Stave Falls, on Stave Lake, was established as a company town for Stave Falls Power Company in the early 1900s. The district was originally known as Stave River; the western side became Ruskin in the lake 1890s, and the name Stave Falls was adopted when a post office opened in 1914. Until 1925, the townsite housed both temporary construction workers and permanent power plant employees. Between 1909 and 1912, the power company (later BC Electric) dammed the river, and began generating in 1912, supplying power to the Lower Mainland.

The growing Stave Falls community included day labourers, loggers, shingle-bolt cutters, and other residents who lived along Dewdney Trunk Road, above the dam, and in the Stave Gardens residential area. Many Japanese Canadian families worked in logging, cutting cedar for shingle bolts later sold to local mills. Most lived along the lakeshore above the dam and, by the late 1930s, farther up Stave Lake Road and in logging camps around the lake.

The Takimoto Mill (Haney Mills Ltd.) and camp operated on land owned by Yojiro Takimoto. Other Japanese Canadians lived at the Stave Lake Cedar Company’s Yabuki Camp near Suicide Creek. The forced uprooting of Japanese Canadians led to a significant fall in population throughout the Stave Lake area.