Three commorative pins belonging to Jusuke Ishikawa

Three commorative pins belonging to Jusuke Ishikawa

Description

Title Proper Three commorative pins belonging to Jusuke Ishikawa
Date(s) 1907–
General material designation
This file has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.
Scope and content
The file consists of three commemorative pins belonging to Jusuke Ishikawa. The pins were presented to Jusuke Ishikawa from Prince Fushimi on June 22, 1907.
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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Three commorative pins belonging to Jusuke Ishikawa
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