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Tomekichi "Tomey" Homma (1865–1945) was a Canadian who was one of the first Japanese settlers of Steveston, [1] which is now part of Richmond, British Columbia. He fought for the right to vote for Japanese-Canadians in provincial elections.
The settlement of Steveston, founded in the 1880s, [1] is a neighbourhood of Richmond in Metro Vancouver. On the southwest tip of Lulu Island, the village is a historic port and salmon canning centre at the mouth of the South Arm of the Fraser River. The early 1900s style architecture attracts both the film and tourism industries.
The first European visitors to present-day British Columbia were Spanish sailors and other European sailors who sailed for the Spanish crown. There is some evidence that the Greek-born Juan de Fuca, who sailed for Spain and explored the West coast of North America in the 1590s, might have reached the passageway between Washington State and Vancouver Island – today known as the Strait of Juan ...
The success of these malls has created significant economic growth in Richmond. Richmond Centre has become Canada's 12th most profitable mall. [49] Offices, apartment buildings, and transportation hubs have sprung up around the mall. While McArthurGlen Vancouver has been given the Best Outlet Centre 2015 award at MAPIC. [50]
Many Acadian homes and settlements were destroyed by the British during the expulsion of the Acadians known as the Great Expulsion from 1755 to 1763. Acadians were a people of French descent who lived in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia for over a century before the British took over the lands that were New France .
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A widow, a service representative at a phone company, a cigar salesman and a state hospital clerk were among the residents who called Columbia’s historic Beverly Apartments home through the 1940s.
Most of these early settlers were male Sikh Punjabis thus becoming the first South Asian-origin group to move to Canada. They settled in British Columbia with the wish to find jobs. [7] Punjabi Sikhs next to CPR, circa 1914. At the turn of the 20th century new restrictions on Chinese immigrants caused their immigration figures to decline.