It's a logging camp. For anyone interested in the history of Japanese immigration to the west coast, google "Steveston japanese history".

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&hs=1AJ&channel=f...

If I read it correctly, The Fine Article explicitly says otherwise: It suggests that the people were likely employees of a Japanese logging company, but settled in the forest when the logging petered out and became self-sufficient.

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I guess it depends upon the definition of a logging camp or settlement. In another discussion on HN, the definition is based on whether the settlements are seasonal or only inhabited for the duration of the logging work.

If this settlement was year-round, and occupied for two decades after the work dried up, it had transitioned from being a logging camp to being an independent settlement.

But I suspect I am arguing "potato" vs "spud."

Yeah, it's what happens when you round people up and put them in internment camps. I am sure anything of substantial value was taken and sold...

They didn’t get the date wrong, just poorly phrased it. Here's the original sentence (from the Internet Archive):

> On February 24, 1942, after Canada’s entrance into World War Two...

And after the correction:

> On February 24, 1942, several years after Canada’s entrance into World War Two...

Canada also declared war on Japan in December of 1941, which makes the 1942 date a bit more salient.