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Tuesday, Au豕u" 9,1977
Honma .. •
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ipg a shoveldressed in & jfひrmal frock co8t and a top hat. It was given to him in Japan by Kaku-goro Inouye when Sato was in the construction business in Japan. It was rurtiouredわhat Sato ha<il come to Caiia<la be, cause of a scandal.Because of his strange attii'e, Sato caug"ht the attenticm of the foreman. Sato never oould扭ke things easy causもthもjf ore I nan always had his ej^es on him. Finally Sato wajj firedにHe had a difficult time getting another job'and—沐もnt:intd ねhe business of sきlHng mochi in camゃ.He became known as tl:e "J frock iio加oclii-乂a san,, GiUro Nichiyaina workedonthさr&【lroad れt that time. The 26 Japanese soひni I KM: eased t《300 men. When Nagao and I had 8 misumier-standing in March,1903 Ileft )and A t SI Jo HattoH from Seattle 玩ok my pla(;c,
Exporting ^tedHeriripg^
This was started in1892 by Teinoji Hayashiv In1387Ki^nizoi Yoshitom[ai1(1OtojirひMori tried exゃo"ting salted her ring at the Gulf of 。eorgia Cannery but it was not successful.In1905 Kametairo Tsuchiya expo rtecj salted herHれg to Hong Kong, fie did this foiャtwo years. Before Tさvu;hiya, K^tsunosuke Negoro alsoゃhiぉped salted 'herring to HongKong. Takematsu Matsu-mojto, ArichikalkedぉandきIihiazo (>ya got into the business of making fertilizer from Jieiring. jtoreiiaera, Tabata, Ode werealso sutcessfiilin tile herring I)usiness.
liOgging Camp Workers
Logging W3S first started in 1895 by Yoneki由Aoki at Indian Riyer wl)ere he employed forty-fiveJ?ipanesさ.T,lve yも31sl&ter a man called UofrortiY罕a-g:uchi,keivstartedlogきinぉ,t !Port Moody. Inl899 WaichrKanemura> "artおlogging in North Vati-couyer- ニー •—
Land Owners
The f it"st Japanese to biiyprQp丄 erty was Katsuzqlshikay/awlio purcliased ailotヌt 331Poweli 聊—.Next, Torakidii OyamA
pUT"chased alot at115 Cordova and Ftarted a hotel(:alle4IfCino kunレya. In 20(^ block Powell Sれe;et a Jiouさe was erected by Tokutora Ghikamma and Tsuite I dchi Kato. Chikamuralater sold his share to Hanuempn Hayashi who is stillliving there. The Hotel Business
The f:irst men dn this business ' men,a union demaivded fifteen
were Kinsuke Takah貼hi on Coレ umbiaAvもnue and <Jihei Kuno on Pender Street. There we re others that i^ented rooma to Japanese b.ut these two "were the《irst to get into the hotelbuainess. The men that followed Ki"ひkvmi-ya were K迈ntiro S$kak】*bara on 900 block Po(well Stree仁Yonekichi' Aoki andMo(haSato. Mitsuhei Yamano and i beでame parゅers and started a roominぉhouse-Others who goぁinto thi$ busine站 ゃer6 Ichitaro Suzuki, Ikuno Murakam!* and Itikotai'o Miya-saki きtakedarQ(inliiijr houss bellind thelぉvv c々ui"ts,CJhiyo3hiciii UdWda and Kyujiro Jk今daals6 Entered: the 'hotelbiisihess. This was about1899 or19OO,
TheReslfUirおnt Business
•In1887 there was one eating pi5^0© calledぉkm拜mur?i-yiL饰en Okomo Y鄉amoto sぉrted Oya-d卿a-ya. Within the next twelve yeaおrest^uraiits were started by YaSuloUjhi "Siiwada, Ot0〗iro Omori, (Nishitsu of Hiroshima-icもn, and l(az画みMori who operated IcW ni saiiia veryさuc(J6Ssfu1veil-ture. Yamamoto (Kagoshima-kekn)ぉd Nagao also starte4ネ restaurant c a11e 4 Takino-ya. KaziwTia Mori knd Rennosuke Kojhna^i^tfihVed—a^Hquorlicense^ and a ran a profitable place.
Stores Dealing With Whites
A stoie which catered mclstly to hakujins was started by J in and Tamura. They sold moミtly Japa, n然e a:ptjcles,
St ores for Japanese
T'he first st<n.e waさstarted by Biih&iShiitiano in100 ]bitockHast-ingsStreet. Enomciftolooked after the stor《\y^ich wasl&ter taken over >y Uchi)da, Then Oya and Howz€?haiY<J oもhers gotぉ)tひthis bushieぉ.
•Jheぉsh^rn?en I star" fishipg oila<Columibia
NO PAINTING ANYMORE
ALUMINUM SIDING, STORM DOORS AND WINDOWS
HIRO ALUMINUM AND HOME IMPROVEMENTS
767-6S72 For Fre« €«tiin"e«
bo at at Stev"ton in1892. A man caUー Yamash it a built多ぉalJf deck onto tihe CJolumbiaboat—The C由mbiiboat easily: tookwatei inUier?Jnandin the irouglisea, The hさぱdeck g^vs shelterto他e fishermen and prevented the water fromgeれing into the bo at. Withinap^"Q^ioぇtTV0 wepks all Japaneseぉaii haIf — d^k在built, Sujga-iu(JukicW Hayalcawa) received the first fishingliceiise.
Marriage with Hakujin
On J an. 7,1897 1chitaroFu〗ii mar He da Miss Annes (sic) at Union.T*\ey had a wonderful wedding in a Protestant church. The minister was Reverend Hick. This was the first interracial
Conflict with White Fishermen
In1900 the Japanese fishermen were organized into an union. Mr. Yamazaki (present publisher of Tairiku Nippひ)became the secretary. A fishemen's strike took place. The canneries off ere<i ten cents and the white fisher-
cents.
At J first the Japanese elected to stay neutralibut when the cannery appealed to them to get back to work they decided to start fishing. This anglered the white fipheirmもn肌d insults were hurled atゎheJapanese. The haku-ぉnj? brought <mt firearms and threatened to "11anyone who went out to iish,
It wぉ& (kmgerous situation but the Japanese could not take thislyingdゃwTi.T!hey vowedわ hat they we re Tiotgoingtob^ intimi-dきted, If nれes幼17, they said tha冬 they would gointo Rattle in the true 8x>iritカf Yam^to-daniashi,
く The? Japanese f isheriTveれirom
1meeting,Itwぉぉided that three boats belonging to Iohitaro Su' zuki, Twakichi.幼hnamiu'21 and ekichi Oogi wouldleave Steveston for the fishing grounds. Additionalmen辆uld be placed on eacl> boat in case pf emergency. Thもmen ^yere armed, determined to fight, even die iif necessary. T^he boats started out but strong winds forced thもmお return aftd they wcr6 not able to casもtheir nets. At North Arm the Japanesebo&ts were able to reaゅ jthe^iishingare" Jiut no inc浙nぉ took place.
The c ?inne Hes, re cognizingも1^34; thもsituatioTiwasg^ttingseri-ゃus, appealed to the Police. TJie れHcにcalled on咏e Provinbial Government iiv Victoria to send sひldiers and 200 menarrived. Thanks to tトe jirrival of the military no 0116 was hurt, Thにmoi;ilゃ of tlieJれpanese ws^s to bead-nii/re<i. They extrav'a的ntlj? balled themselves the men from the sacredぶoimtry of Jap£in~^hinshu danji. Nobody、vas goミng" to push t;hem around!
Faming
Tthe必panies^ are people of t>he sea jind didnoレgさtintひfai'ming ift CJanadiiuntilthelast tenッearミ. In1895Kisuk:さ:Miiaimi started faiming on ^aitpn^a (sic)Island. t"ard Minewaゅi, Matsuo, JIひokin-do rented 15ひacr^s of1ネnd and started t() farm. Men wiho were naturalized Canadians were a We to purchaseland. Mikumi statted tirhiging^iinmほraivts" fo-work bif farmsにぉe wo rIced for Charles
Dr. Kamatairo Morihira started ttieir practices-Education
In1897 Mr, an(T Mrs. Ranzひ Kishimoto (wife's name is Yoko) st&rted texiling irt a makeshift classroom in a 'house belonging to Mr. Mひri or\ PoweU Street. T0rasabur9 Tanaka apdWaichi Kanemumwei.€i requested by the Japanese consul,Mr. Shimizu, to act as schooltrustees. When Mr. Kishimoto died, his wife returned to Japan aftdGomd Asano became the teacher. Classes were h"ld "化e rear .ひf他e IkeSa RoomingHouぉ.At that time the Japanese coi)sul was KiShiro Morikawa who had alot to do ■with他e starting of-the J汰penese Kokumin Gakko.
The Emperor's Birthday
Tencho setsu was celebrated at the ho me' of Kihei !KiiTi&igi, Kinzo Irie acting as chairmail.Consiil Nose aUended"dri&ssed in formal court uniform. Bani a is were shouted for the Emperor.
The first studio was opened in 1894 by Rinzo Tashiro in the Skeena RiVer ai'ゃa' In1901he moved tり236 PowellStreet. In New :Westminぉter Tsunejo Oka-murんopened for bu sin ess, Y&tiro Arikado "1so opened1lis $tudio.
Barbershops
In1899 Otoharu Y鄉da opened aぉarber shop (Yasudaひ0-k0) on Hastings Streもt. Folio\ying him Avei.eMrさ.i^akamiirajHat-sutaro, Isomura(T争kまDo-ko), Gentaro Nakagawa.
Confectioneries
In1さ89 ^aichi 1ぐane?nui,a opened きmanju store. Naosaburo >fakagaAva, Risaburo Y a n a s e (190:0), U t&k'ichiKaw"ald (190i), Sentaro Udiida (1902), Suぼi (1903) 「open< for》ゅ "ess. •
W rUきr, Billiard Halis
Kねuma Mori op,ned writet,soffice in19QCi in ?00 block Peiider Sれ枕t. vA billiard hallwas started勿a number of people at卿PowellStreet. Yonekich': Aoki opened one on Main Street.
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Neithei. Warrさri, the spn of a NorwegUn immigrant ^t^ailroad 、vot4cer (th[eanc€str&lname *as Varran), nor tiie Court Jie presided over cfもate(i脉さreャo!ut;b"ぇ The moralさnd other forces that compelled a i"ulirig on schoolsegregation had beeii gathering strength since before AVorld War n; the silifting ijf ';po5nilaticm:b]vat riiade onoミt statelegislatures out" ひgeously unfeprーntative had beenacceiei^ating fひrhaぱa cen, 卞ury; the quickening of Conscieheje that c ailed for the ex ten's ion of Co nst it \it ion-ordained riぉhts to criminals alid radicals hadおSen taking place sincie the iMcCartJhy era. Eventually, aiccoinmodations wouldliavebeもiv made, but itお hardlylikelyth"1bhey^ivouId have been so far Treachlngiiadthe Calif orni 2 governor not join&d th& court.
Gabriもl,a Frenchman, wholived 】'h VietoHa. A man called Tsuchiya grew, sugar beets in Raymond. He was the first farm in southern Alberta.
Japanese Tailors
In1896 a Yoshino rented the second floor shop from Gihei Kuno at Hastings and Columbia and started a tailひr shop. To rasa-buro Tanaka, Yoichi Tanabe, ^lankichi Kato got into the business.
Doctors
San Francisco in1897. In1901 I>r. Neir.osuke Ishihara, in1903
Tsunc-ishi Jewellers opened on Has tings Street inl亂In "03 Okamoto Jeweller started on Cordova Street.
Baths and Laundries
0km'a I^aundry was the first one folio wed by Kiimataro Ok^^a Laumiry in1906 in 6加block PowellStreet. Unfortunately Ok a da Laundry failed. Presently there are t、vo — Okura and Kiト bota (Fuji Sentaku). A western style public bath was started by Kannosuke Kam;'nミshi in1904 on Tep】)on (si(?) Street. Latt'i、Yoichi
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