Miscellaneous documents belonging to Jusuke Ishikawa

Miscellaneous documents belonging to Jusuke Ishikawa

Description

Title Proper Miscellaneous documents belonging to Jusuke Ishikawa
Date(s) 1939–1985
General material designation
This file has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.
Scope and content
The file contains a letter written in Japanese to Mr. and Mrs. Jusuke Ishikawa from Sadakichi Kozu dated 1939 and a newspaper clipping. The newspaper clipping is circa 1985, about the Buddhist church that was built in 1930 in Port Hammond, BC.
[The Buddhist Church housed a kindergarten class and a hall. The building was contracted by Shiro Koga and built by Kinjiro Takamasha, Engi Ariga, committee chairman Hisasuke Oike, co-chairman Yousuke Fujita and Jusuke Ishikawa. The building was located on 216th Ave and Dewdney Trunk road, and in 2018 the building was still standing and open as a restaurant/pub.]
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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Miscellaneous documents belonging to Jusuke Ishikawa
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