People uprooted from Royston (44)

Royston, on Comox Harbour, was established by non-Indigenous settlers as farmland in 1890. In 1910, a townsite was developed on the farm property and by 1912 there were thirty residents. Japanese Canadians worked as coal miners in Cumberland prior to the opening of Royston Sawmill in 1913. By 1917, the partnership that owned the Royston Sawmill was dissolved. After a couple changes in ownership, the mill was soon owned and operated by five Japanese Canadian men: Mr. Kaminishi, Mr. Iwasa, Mr. Minato, Mr. Tomihiro, and Mr. Uchiyama. They established this company as the Royston Lumber Company.

In 1930, The Royston Buddhist Church was built and served over sixty families across the Comox Valley. The church acted as a cultural hub, events centre, and the Japanese Language school. Royston had a Japanese Canadian baseball team, and the Minto School, located near Royston Lumber mill, was attended primarily by Japanese Canadian children.