Shige Wakabayashi immigration

Shige Wakabayashi immigration

Description

Title Proper Shige Wakabayashi immigration
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1930
General material designation
From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.
Scope and content
Letter in Japanese, 1 page, dated 1930. Letter is an immigration application for Jisaburo's wife Shige (26 years old), and it is stamped by the Imperial Consulate of Japan. Contains the stamp of the Imperial Japanese Consulate and is witnessed by Eikichi Kagetsu, president of the Canadian Japanese Association
Name of creator
Henry Wakabayashi is the founder of Pacific Liaicon Ltd., he has helped many major projects such as the Vancouver Sky Train, the expansion of the Vancouver International Airport and the Metro Vancouver drinking water treatment program.
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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Shige Wakabayashi immigration
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Terminology

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