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Kintaro Aida chopping wood
- Date Range
- 1938
- Collection
- Aida Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Collection
- Aida Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Other Title Info
- Title based on caption written in original scrapbook.
- Fonds No.
- PF5
- Item No.
- P6717
- Accession No.
- 2015.13.1
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph: b&w
- Date Range
- 1938
- History / Biographical
- Kintaro Aida was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1888 and immigrated to Canada with his brothers Eitaro and Kimetaro in 1906. He finished his education in British Columbia and was hired by a tailor named Shizusada Fuseya in Vancouver. Kintaro married Fuseya's daughter Sadako in 1912, and the couple moved to Prince Rupert where they had their sons Tatsuo, Fujio (Joe), and Tetsuo (Ben). The family moved to Smithers in the 1920s where they operated a laundry, tailor shop, and boarding house. They had two more children in Smithers named Asao and Sumiko. When Sadako took Asao and Sumiko on a trip to Japan in 1939, the outbreak of the Second World War rendered them unable to return to Canada until the early 1950s. Kintaro remained with his sons in Smithers until 1945. He moved to Stouffville, Ontario and was later joined by most of his family; Asao remained in Japan.
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Notes
- P6715-P6803 come from a disk and are only available in digital format.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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