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No.02 (November 20, 1908)

Where are they located? Once you leave Vancouver and travel to interior by the CPR lines, you will see caves everywhere. Some places have straight Japanese workers but others have no Japanese but a small community among mountains where devils target white labourers working in a mine as clients of their prostitution businesses. Among towns there are ones that have their caves expelled by government policy. In some towns, new prostitutes enter the community some time after caves were expelled. In fact, Calgary once had strict regulations but prostitution has become vibrant again. Nelson and Cranbrook show no change and are carrying on their businesses. Vernon recently had its caves expelled. Let us list the towns, in which Japanese prostitutes left their footprints: Ashcroft, Kamloops, Vernon, Kelowna, Revelstoke, Three Valley, Golden, Greenwood, Grand Forks, Rossland, Trail, Nelson, Kaslo, Wardner, Cranbrook, Fernie, Hosmer, Blairmore, Michel, Macleod, Lethbridge, Calgary, Red Deer, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Medicine Hat, Moose Jaw, Port Arthur, Fort William, Winnipeg, Prince Albert, etc., which already amounts to over thirty places.

Beside these, there seem to be devils who entered Canada from the United States and are doing prostitution businesses in some countryside, which means that there are more places than what I have just listed. However, as I noted earlier, not all of these places are still doing prostitution. Some places have not recovered from the town’s strict order. They tend to act on an ad hoc basis and are urged to make a rush to places that have a reputation for having a moderate town policy or having good economy. One example is Fernie after the fire. Fernie was originally not a town that tolerates prostitution but the great fire burned down the entire town, which invited whites to build new houses, new streets to emerge, and new people to settle in. Devil fellows traveled from Cranbrook, Lethbridge, and Blairmore to move to Fernie, assuming that brothels would be in demand, but apparently they are not as successful as they wished because the town is strict.

Anyway, as you can see they do not permanently settle in one place, but instead pay full attention to the changing winds.

So what do the current situations of these places look like?

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