Jujiro Nishimura
Jujiro Nishimura was a Japanese Canadian who served as a trustee for the Japanese Language School in Marpole along with Daishiro Teramura and Kiyomitsu Yamazaki. Before the uprooting of Japanese Canadians in World War II, he ran a grocery store on Hudson Street in the Marpole neighborhood of Vancouver. Following the uprooting, he and his family were interned at McGillivary Falls. (Source: Kimura Appendix)
Bird Commission case file number 216. Custodian file number 09341. (Source: lac_rg33-69_volume_12_file_0216)
bca_f0_gr0268_14_03.pdf
Metadata
| Surname | Nishimura |
| Forename | Jujiro |
| Regularized Name | Jujiro Nishimura |
Terminology
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