Japanese workers were employed by the Britannia Mine 

Takeo Ujo Nakano was ordered to leave Woodfibre to Vancouver and then to BC interior camps. 

Before WWII, Japanese Canadian families were a vibrant part of life in Howe Sound, with communities in Woodfibre, Britannia, and nearby logging camps. But in 1942, over 22,000 Japanese Canadians were forcibly removed from the B.C. coast, including many from this region. Despite wartime fear and discrimination, the RCMP later dismissed the idea of local espionage as baseless. 

Takeo Ujo Nakano was an Issei poet and author of the memoir Within the Barbed Wire Fence, which recounts his experience of the Japanese Canadian internment in road camps and the Angler POW camp.

Born in Japan, Nakano immigrated to Canada in 1920, and was living in Woodfibre, BC with his wife and young daughter when he taken away from his family to work in an Alberta road camp. When he peacefully protested against his separation from his family, he was sent to a prisoner of war camp in Angler, Ontario.

Raj Sherman joined his father, Kumar Sharma, at the mill in Squamish. He later became MLA in Alberta and emergency doctor

Squamish Days Parade had Sikh dancers performing

Federico and Cristina Angel immigrated to Canada from Colombia. They became owners of the Squamish Connector in 2014. Federico published The Memory of a Name memoir.