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Powell River, on the Sunshine Coast, was the Tla’amin village of tiskʷat. Non-Indigenous loggers established camps in the area in the 1880s. The Brooks, Scanlon & O’Brien Company (O’Brien) began logging south of Powell River in 1900 and, between 1910 and 1912, built a pulp and paper mill. A company town developed around the mill, and twenty-one houses were constructed in 1911. After merging with O’Brien, the Powell River Company opened BC’s first newsprint mill in 1912. By 1930, it was the world’s largest newsprint mill and employed more than 2,000 workers.

Many Japanese Canadians worked for the Powell Lake Shingle Company and the McNair Shingle Company. The McNair company operated camps in Stillwater, near Khartoum and Lois Lakes (formerly the Gordon Pasha Lakes). Company-owned housing was commonly rented to employees, while single men often lived in shingle bolt camps along Powell Lake.