Fumi Ezaki (nee Saito) and Kimi Nasu (nee Saito) Posing in Front of Quick Cleaners on Symthe Street; Vancouver, BC

Fumi Ezaki (nee Saito) and Kimi Nasu (nee Saito) Posing in Front of Quick Cleaners on Symthe Street; Vancouver, BC

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Title Proper Fumi Ezaki (nee Saito) and Kimi Nasu (nee Saito) Posing in Front of Quick Cleaners on Symthe Street; Vancouver, BC
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1919
General material designation
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Scope and content
A photograph of Fumiko Ezaki (nee Saito) and Kimiko Nasu (nee Saito) posing in front of the Quick Cleaners storefront window on Symthe Street, Vancouver, BC.
Name of creator
Kohei Saito was born around 1880 in Shizuoka prefecture. He came to Canada sometime before his marriage to Natsu Mochizuki in 1914 or 1915. They both arrived on the ship Canada Maru on October 16, 1915 which sailed from Yokohama to Victoria, BC. At that time Kohei was a returning Canadian, and had been in Japan for eight months at the address 130 Yodobashi machi, Toyo tama gun, Tokyo fu.
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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Fumi Ezaki (nee Saito) and Kimi Nasu (nee Saito) Posing in Front of Quick Cleaners on Symthe Street; Vancouver, BC
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