Original documents relating to Jusuke Ishikawa

This series has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.

The series consists of seven files. The first file consists of documents regarding Jusuke Ishikawa's employment. The second file is a 1911 atlas of prefectures in Japan. The third file contains original documents including land receipts of sale in Port Hammond and Vancouver, BC. The fourth file consists of three Henry Birks & sons receipts for a wedding ring, a revenue tax receipt, timber lease receipts, a fire policy, bank draft notes, a library tax receipt and war bonds issued in 1939. The fifth file consists of Kosekis and pedigree charts of the ancestors of Jusuke Ishikawa. The sixth file consists of miscellaneous documents regarding Jusuke Ishikawa, including a letter from Isamu Matsushita, dated 1917 and a newspaper article about the Hammond Japanese Hall. The seventh file consists of three medal pins - Prince Fushimi pins presented to Jusuke Ishikawa on June 22, 1907.

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.

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