People uprooted from Sherman (30)

Sherman (Sherman PO) was a post office in West Vancouver, established in 1926. It was located at the Sherman whistle-stop on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, just uphill from the Sherman cannery (Great Northern Cannery). Originally, the site was a seasonal Indigenous village. Many Japanese Canadians used this address while working and living at the Sherman Cannery.

In 1900, the Great Northern Cannery (formerly Defiance) was built on Sherman Avenue in West Vancouver. In 1935, Francis Millerd & Company purchased the cannery and began canning chum salmon the following year. The site consisted of a wharf, fish processing buildings, and housing for workers and their families. The cannery was known as the walled city, described as an inclusive, self-sustaining, multicultural community that employed many Indigenous and Japanese Canadian workers. One of the workers, Tomekichi Homma, fought for Japanese Canadiansʼ right to vote.