Ishikawa Family collection

Description

Title Proper	Ishikawa Family collection
Date(s)	1905–1987
General material designation	This fonds contains 25 textual records and other records.
Scope and content	The collection consists of five series. The first series contains the personal documents relating to Isamu Ishikawa. Included in the series are original certificates of citizenship, a diploma for a Sunday school teacher, driver's license, immigration cards and a passport of Isamu Ishikawa dating from 1927-1958. The second series contains documents and three artifacts relating to Jusuke Ishikawa. Included are original receipts, a land title, bank draft notes, contracts, letters, photographs, three commemorative pins and testimonial cloths pertaining to the activities of Jusuke Ishikawa from 1909-1939. The third series consists of documents relating to Tame Ishikawa, Jusuke's wife. The fourth series consists of nine black and white photographs and 12 digital images of Jusuke, Tame and others in Port Hammond, BC and Yamaguchi, Japan, including the Hirotsu family. The fifth series is a charcoal sketch of a scene in Meiji Japan in Jusuke's possession.
Name of creator	Jusuke Ishikawa was born Sept 10, 1867 in Ihonosho, Yamaguchi, Japan. He came to Canada in 1899. In 1909 he spent $75.00 on his first installment of land in Port Hammond where he had a logging crew. Eventually he cleared the land and had a strawberry farm. He married Tame Hirotsu after buying rings from Birks in 1909.
Immediate source of acquisition	The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

Structure

Repository

Nikkei National Museum

Digital Objects (24)

Jusuke Ishikawa and others felling a tree

Jusuke & Tame Ishikawa standing in front of their homestead; Port Hammond, BC

Jusuke Ishikawa's logging crew

Jusuke, Tame Ishikawa in front of Jusuke's home; Port Hammond BC

Jusuke and Tame Ishikawa in their car; Port Hammond, BC

Isamu Ishikawa and his biological family in Yamaguchi, Japan

Sadakichi Hirotsu and one of his sons

A Family Portrait of Isamu, Jusuke, Sadako and Tame Ishikawa in front of their house; Port Hammond, BC

Jusuke Ishikawa Farm; Port Hammond BC

A Group Portrait of the First Meeting of the Maple Ridge Fujinkai (Women's Group); Maple Ridge, B.C.

Port Hammond community Portrait

Maple Ridge Nyu Butsu Shiki (ceremony to bring Buddha to new temple), March 4, 1934.

Port Hammond Nokai Hall Community Portrait

Group Portrait; Port Hammond, B.C.

Funeral procession for Shinobu Kimura.

Jusuke Ishikawa and a Group; Vancouver, BC

A Group Portrait of Members of the Fraser Valley Buddhist Church; BC

Exterior View of the Fraser Valley Buddhist Church; BC

A Kimono-Clad Group Portrait with Minako Hirotsu; Slocan, BC

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Ishikawa Family collection

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Terminology

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