Ishikawa Family collection

Ishikawa Family collection

Description

Title Proper Ishikawa Family collection
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1905–1987
General material designation
From this fonds, LOI has digitized 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.

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Ishikawa Family collection
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Terminology

Readers of these historical materials will encounter derogatory references to Japanese Canadians and euphemisms used to obscure the intent and impacts of the internment and dispossession. While these are important realities of the history, the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective urges users to carefully consider their own terminological choices in writing and speaking about this topic today as we confront past injustice. See our statement on terminology, and related sources here.