nnm_f683_volume_s2071_file

Description

Title Proper	Family Business Papers
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized
General material designation	From this file, LOI has digitized a textual record.
Scope and content	The file consists of four folders of business licences for tailor and dry cleaner shops. The first file consists of tailor business licences for 578 Powell Street, Vancouver, BC from 1919 to 1927. The second file consists of tailor and cleaners business licences for 398 Heatley Avenue in Vancouver BC from 1930 to 1931. The third file consists of tailor business licences for 397 Powell Street, Vancouver, BC from 1933 to 1940. The fourth file consists of dry cleaner business licences for 818 Smythe (Smithe) Street, Vancouver, BC from 1931 to 1942 (note there are no licences for the years 1937, 1938 and 1939).
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.

Structure

Repository	Nikkei National Museum
Fonds	Saito Family Collection
Series	Family Business Papers and Photographs

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