Port Hammond Nokai Hall Community Portrait

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Photograph of members of the Port Hammond community in front of the Nokai Hall, kindergarten and Buddhist Church. In the front row are the four Buddhist monks. Also seated in the front row on the right of the photo is Jusuke Ishikawa, who helped rebuild the Port Hammond Nokai Hall in 1930-31. Tame Ishikawa is to his right standing. Sansuke Kawamoto is second to the left in the second row standing. Koto Kawamoto is in the fur lined coat standing in the third row on the far right, just behind her peeking out, only his head can be seen is one of her sons.

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.