1940 Income Tax Receipt for Junzo Yamake

1940 Income Tax Receipt for Junzo Yamake

Description

Title Proper 1940 Income Tax Receipt for Junzo Yamake
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1940
General material designation
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Scope and content
The document, an Income Tax Notice of Assessment for the year 1940 for Junzo Yamake, is kept in a an envelope addressed to Yamake. The income tax notice, mailed on April twenty-eighth, 1943, makes the assessment that Yamake must pay $7.56 in taxes.
Name of creator
Junzo Yamake came to Canada from Ubikiyama, Shiga Ken at the age of twenty five. He apprenticed as a baker under Mr. Hayashi until he could open his own shop in 1927. He married Hatsuye Nishimura in 1928 and began a family.
Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
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1940 Income Tax Receipt for Junzo Yamake
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