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Aida Family fonds
- Date Range
- [1929-1946; 2008]
- Collection
- Aida Family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- graphic material
- textual record
- electronic record
- Scope and Content
- Fonds includes records collected and created by the Aida Family. Records include Tetsuo's school certificates, Aida Cleaners signs and photographs.
- Collection
- Aida Family fonds
- Description Level
- Fonds
- GMD
- graphic material
- textual record
- electronic record
- Fonds No.
- PF5
- Accession No.
- 2015.13
- 2017.89
- Physical Description
- 2.5 cm of textual records
- 26 photographs
- 3 postcards
- 1 CD
- Date Range
- [1929-1946; 2008]
- History / Biographical
- The Aidas were a Japanese-Canadian family who lived in Smithers during the 1920s-1940s. Kintaro Aida, born in Tokyo in 1888, immigrated to Canada in 1906 and married Sadako Fuseya-Wanibe, who had come to Canada from Japan in 1909. The couple had three sons in Prince Rupert - Tatsuo 'Tat' (b. 1916), Fujio 'Joe' (b. 1917), and Tetuso 'Ben' (b. 1919) - before moving to Smithers. Two more children - a son named Asao and a daughter named Sumiko - were born here in 1927 and 1929 respectively. Kintaro ran a tailor shop and rooming house, while Sadako managed a laundry. Sadako, Asao and Sumiko visited family in Japan shortly before the outbreak of World War II and were unable to return home until after the war. Asao got married in Japan and remained there. The rest of the Aida family moved to Stouffville, Ontario in the late 1940s. For more information, see finding aid.
- Scope and Content
- Fonds includes records collected and created by the Aida Family. Records include Tetsuo's school certificates, Aida Cleaners signs and photographs.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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