The present administrator, Wesley Miyamoto, is the grandson of the original founders, Dentaro and Yone Miyamoto.
Dentaro Miyamoto landed in Vancouver from Wakayama prefecture, Japan in 1907, and was shocked to experience the race riots of Chinatown and Japantown when angry mobs of white men attacked and smashed store windows.
Eleven years later, Yone joined him and they were married in Vancouver. They had three children: two daughters who were raised in Japan by their grandmother, and a son.