Personal photographs of the Ishikawa family

From this series, LOI has digitized 25 textual records and other records.

The series consists of twenty five photograph images of the Ishikawa family. Eleven of the images are black and white photographs and fourteen are digital images. The photos reflect the early immigrant life of Jusuke Ishikawa and his associations with the Port Hammond community. Some photos were taken in front of the Ishikawa homestead in Port Hammond, BC. Some photos illustrate early clearing of land and logging by horse drawn vehicles. There is one photo of Isamu with his biological family in Yamaguchi 1927 and a photograph of Sadakichi Hirtosu and a son also in Yamaguchi.

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.

This record was digitized in full.