Yamake Family Legal Documents

From this file, LOI has digitized 7 textual records and other records.

The documents include: A BC Security Commission Permit for Junzo Yamake to remain at 359 Powell Street for two weeks, March 27, 1942. Income Tax Notice of Assessment for Junzo Yamake, April 28, 1943. In envelope. A letter, in Japanese, issued by the Japanese Merchants Association, March 25, 1942. A letter in Japanese regarding orders by the BC Security Commission, Asset Management Division. A letter, in Japanese, issued by the BC Security Commission. Attached is a notice, in English regarding the salery amounts for Japanese internees at internment camps and work projects. A Statement and Declaration to the Bulk Sales Act showing creditors of Seichiro Aoiki, confectioner of 359 Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, 1928. A letter addressed to the British Columbia Retailers, titled, "... And now, what next?" Written by George Matthews, BC Board, Retail Merchants Association of Canada, 1938.

Junzo Yamake came to Canada from Ubikiyama, Shiga Ken at the age of twenty five. He apprenticed as a baker under Mr. Hayashi until he could open his own shop in 1927. He married Hatsuye Nishimura in 1928 and began a family.

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