Funeral procession for Shinobu Kimura.

Funeral procession for Shinobu Kimura.

Description

Title Proper Funeral procession for Shinobu Kimura.
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1911
General material designation
From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.
Scope and content
Funeral procession of mostly men in black suits for Shinobu Kimura, written in Japanese on the white post. The Buddhist monk is standing in the front of the procession. There are three horse drawn funeral carriages down a street which contains the Buddhist church. The street is unpaved, but there are telephone wires along it.
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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Funeral procession for Shinobu Kimura.
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