Kanezo & Sono Hirotsu with grandson Tomotsu in Japan.

Kanezo & Sono Hirotsu with grandson Tomotsu in Japan.

Description

Title Proper Kanezo and Sono Hirotsu with grandson Tomotsu in Japan.
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1911
General material designation
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Scope and content
Portrait photo of Kanezo and Sono Hirotsu, birth grandparents of Isamu Ishikawa. Kanezo (male) is 81 years old in this photo. Sono (female) is 71 years old. Tomotsu is the boy aged 6. The photo was taken May 27, 1911 in Japan.
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
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.

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Kanezo & Sono Hirotsu with grandson Tomotsu in Japan.
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