People uprooted from Stillwater (23)

Stillwater (formerly Scow Bay), located south of Powell River on the shared traditional territories of the Tla’amin and shíshálh Nations, was established by the Brooks, Scanlon & O’Brien Logging Company as a major logging operation in 1908. In 1924, the McNair Shingle Company began operations in the area and employed several Japanese Canadians. They lived in separate shingle bolt camps managed by Japanese Canadians. The larger camps include the Suzuki, Tairo, and Kaino camps. These camps, and other smaller ones, were located along Khartoum Lake.

The forcible uprooting of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, combined with declining timber supplies, prevented the Khartoum Lake camps from reopening. All McNair shingle-bolt camps were closed by 1950.