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Clayoquot is in the traditional territories of the the Hesquiaht, ʕaaḥuusʔatḥ (Ahousaht), and Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations. It was settled by non-Indigenous migrants around 1855, following the establishment of a trading post, and included settlements on Stubbs Island (later Clayoquot Island), Meares Island, and the adjacent peninsula, where the community of Tofino later developed. A salmon saltery was set up on Stubbs Island in 1892.

Japanese Canadians from Steveston initially began fishing in Clayoquot Sound, and by 1921, more than eighty Japanese Canadian fishing boats operated in the Clayoquot-Tofino area. Following the introduction of a residency requirement by the Department of Fisheries in 1923, local Japanese Canadian communities began to grow, and eventually nearly 300 people lived on Stubbs Island. In addition to a fishing settlement along the eastern bay, a Japanese hamlet was home to the Igarashi, Karatsu, Katsuro, Kimoto, Okada, Suguro, and Yoshihara families.

From 1934 to 1938, a government-funded school on Stubbs Island served the Japanese Canadian community. After its closure, children attended school in Tofino, two kilometres away by rowboat, but the school reopened in 1939, and was only finally closed in 1942 following the forcible uprooting of the Japanese Canadian residents. The annual Clayoquot Days celebration, established in 1896, was a weekend-long, multicultural event that brought together as many as 1,400 people from Tofino, Ucluelet, and surrounding areas. Following the forcible uprooting of Japanese Canadians, the Stubbs Island community became relatively inactive.