Haruko Kobayakawa's passport on first arrival to Canada from Japan

Haruko Kobayakawa's passport on first arrival to Canada from Japan

Description

Title Proper Haruko Kobayakawa's passport on first arrival to Canada from Japan
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1921
General material designation
From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.
Scope and content
Haruko's passport from Japan has three pages. On the front page is her particulars written in Japanese with three red stamps on the page. On the second page is English written which reads Hiroko Kobayakawa, from Hiroshima ken on April 8, 1921, wife of Masao, age 19 years and 2 months, stature 4 feet and 7.8 inches. The third page is mostly blank but has a small photo of Haruko attached to the paper and it is stamped.
Name of creator
Mrs. Haruko Ivy Kobayakawa (nee Yokota) was born at Takeni-mura Hiroshima, Japan, March 20, 1902. In 1921, Haruko traveled to Canada to marry Masao Kobayakawa who was born in Cumberland BC March 10, 1898. The couple resided at Courtenay, BC on a farm that Masao owned.
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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Haruko Kobayakawa's passport on first arrival to Canada from Japan
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