May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada, and the Maple Ridge Museum and Archives offered a look back at Maple Ridge’s history of settlement by Japanese Canadians.
In the 1920s and 1930s, one-third of the population of Maple Ridge was of Japanese descent.
There was a building which was originally built as a Buddhist Temple in the 1930s. It eventually became the Christian Reform Church, before the home of several local businesses. It still stands today at Dewdney Trunk Road and 216th Street.
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The museum has original panels on display that bear the names of the Japanese residents who built this structure nearly a 100 years ago.
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