Tashme

TASHME, 22 km east of HOPE off the HOPE–PRINCETON HWY, was a community of tarpaper shacks hastily thrown together in 1942 to house Japanese Canadians relocated from the coast (see JAPANESE, RELOCATION OF). The population peaked at about 2,600. Most of the men worked at a SAWMILL or on construction of the highway. At the end of the war, residents were allowed to leave and the community was dismantled in 1946. The name was a combination of the names of the 3 members of the BC Security...

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