Float and Parade Participants celebrating the Royal Visit on the 300 block of Powell Street; Vancouver, BC

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The image shows a float that looks like a green house festooned with leaves on the edges with a group of people displayed inside. In behind the float is a large throng of people spilling over the sidewalk. People are also visible from windows on the second storey as well as Japanese and Union Jack flags. The signs from Fuji Chop Suey, Lion Rooms can be seen.

Komajiro Nishihata was a pioneer who came Vancouver in 1901. He left his home town of Echigawa cho, Shiga ken during the immigration boom. Komajiro's twin sons, Saburo and Jiro were born April 12, 1899 but remained in Echigawa cho, to acquire middle school education in Japan. They lived with an aunt until they graduated and came to Canada together on August 21, 1914 on board the Canada Maru. Immigration laws had tightened and the boys' father sponsored by Komajiro Nishihata from Big Bay near Comox, BC, and lived with him until 1921. Afterwards, the family was reunited and lived together near Port Moody, where Komajiro worked at the Port Moody Sawmill.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

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