Corner Store #4: Wong's Market @ 44th and Main Street. Presently closed. The historic significance of this building is clad over in stucco, obscuring wood clapboard siding, hand-painted advertising signage, and a patina stained from the exhaust of pre-war traffic. Built in 1910 it opened as Reeve and Harding General Store and later purchased by the Fukuharas, a Japanese-Canadian family in the late 1930's. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor the property was seized and they were re-located to the BC Interior.
Noted Vancouver historian and artist, Michael Kluckner, writes about the fate of the Fukuhara family here: https://www.michaelkluckner.com/bciw1wongs.html. (A link marked "The story continues here." continues with their story in the Shuswap region) There is no mention of when the store was turned over to the Wong family.
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