Land documents belonging to Jusuke Ishikawa

Land documents belonging to Jusuke Ishikawa

Description

Title Proper Land documents belonging to Jusuke Ishikawa
Date(s) 1909–1924
General material designation
This file has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.
Scope and content
The file consists of receipts, land title, letters and reports regarding Jusuke Ishikawa's land that he purchased in 1909 and in 1917. Including an October 16, 1909 receipt for $754.05 in English, a February 14, 1910 receipt for $787.36 on second payment of lots 15-22 and lots 65-66 south half of 723 South Vancouver, together with 6 months interest, in English, a memorandum from land registry office enclosing deed, dated February 21, 1919, in English, a sale of land documents in Japanese, a deed and agreement between James Irving and Jusuke Ishikawa to purchase land in Port Hammond, BC on January 15, 1917, a letter from land registry office in English, a letter from the land registry office in English dated February 26, 1919 and two reports in Japanese about his land dated 1924.
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
No digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

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Land documents belonging to Jusuke Ishikawa
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