オスランド / スミス島から追放された (14)

Osland, on the southeast coast of Smith Island, was established by Icelandic Canadian settlers from 1912 to 1913. More settlers arrived in the fishing village after the First World War. In the 1920s, the population of Osland reached approximately eighty people. The primary employer was the nearby Cassiar Cannery, but when gas-powered boats were popularized, fishermen began working for other canneries.

During the 1930s, many of the original settler families relocated and the one-room school was at risk of closing, so the community encouraged Japanese Canadian families to move to Osland from the nearby canneries. In 1931, the Sakamoto family relocated from the North Pacific Cannery to Osland. The sons formed the Sakamoto Brothers boatbuilding shop, and around 1933 they purchased a floating hangar. Osland was renowned for quality boatbuilding and had three docks: the Imperial Oil dock used in the summer; the community float; and the government wharf.