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surgery ward, kitchen and staff dormitories. The facility was important as part of the infrastructure built in response to the typhoid fever epidemics that were an annual scourge of the
Steveston Japanese Canadian community during the last years of the 19th Century. The hospital closed after the internment of Japanese Canadians in 1942.
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Japanese Fishermen's Benevolent Society Building was converted into a family residence. It was the only surviving structure of the original cluster of hospital, school and administration buildings. In 2010 the Japanese Hospital Office was moved to become part
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