title

 

Hajime Harvey Arita collection

 

general material designation

 

[graphic materials]
extent

 

13 photoprints

 

date

 

1920-1935

 

scope and content

 

The collection consists of thirteen images the shingle camp in Stave Falls, Mission, BC and of the Akira's departure for Canada from the port at Yokohama, Japan.

 

biography

 

Kaneichi Arita came to Canada around 1910 and worked at a shingle mill camp near Stave Falls in Mission, BC. He was married to Fura Arita. Kaneichi Arita worked with his brother Tomoichi Arita at this camp. Kaneichi and Tomoichi, and their families returned to Japan before the Second World War and worked as vegetable and rice farmers in Hiroshima-ken, Hatsukaiichi-shi.

 


 

Hajime Harvey Arita was born in Canada at the shingle camp but grew up in Japan. He returned to Canada in the 1950's and has lived there since.

 

number

 

2013.60

 

organisation

 

Nikkei National Museum
access

 

Open