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Until whaling was phased out, many Japanese were seasonally engaged at the whaling station at Rose Harbor in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Cutting up the large mammals was not a pleasant form of employment in the early 1900s. The men also worked at the Ikeda copper mine on the island

Credit: University of British Columbia Archives / Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Archives

JCCC — Last modified Mar 30 2011 8:02 p.m.


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