Jisaburo Wakabayashi Documents

From this file, LOI has digitized 16 textual records and other records.

File contains an Immigration Identification Card for Wakabayashi, Jisaburo; Medical Examination Certificate for Jisaburo Wakabayashi, Shiga Prefecture, in Japanese, one page, dated after 1965; note handwritten in Japanese dated 1930s noting family names, years, and dates; Royal Bank of Canada passbooks dated 1946-1952; a note in Japanese dated 1944 containing a list of books (18 types, 27 books) on topics including Japanese culture, poetry/haiku, contemporary literature, bibles/Christianity, Buddhism, and more; a Letter from Dept. of Labor advising to return to Japan or relocate east of the Rockies, dated March 12, 1945; Letter from Dept. of Labor regarding Japanese who are repatriating to Japan, dated March 12, 1945; letter in Japanese, 1 page, dated 1929, stating that Jisaburo Wakabayashi left Canada; letter in Japanese, 1 page, dated 1930 - an immigration application for Jisaburo's wife Shige (26 years old). Contains the stamp of the Imperial Japanese Consulate and is witnessed by Eikichi Kagetsu, president of the Canadian Japanese Association; Insurance Policy for Monarch Life Assurance Canada and letter from them regarding their Policy 98210, dated April 12, 1946; Dominion of Canada Income Tax T1 Special 1947 of Mr. Jisaburo Wakabayashi; Income Tax Return 1948 for Miss Anne Aiko Wakabayashi, 1948.

Henry Wakabayashi is the founder of Pacific Liaicon Ltd., he has helped many major projects such as the Vancouver Sky Train, the expansion of the Vancouver International Airport and the Metro Vancouver drinking water treatment program.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.