The sources include:

The Japanese Community in Mission: A Brief History 1904-1942 -Author William T. Hashizume (Mission Community Archives)

Rites of Passage: The History of the Local Japanese Canadian community Mission, B.C. (Mission Community Archives)

The Minutes of the Pacific Co-operative Union (Mission Community Archives)

 

The Lost Pioneers

Japanese Canadians: From immigration to deportation. https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/history-ethnic-cultural/Pages/japanese-immigration.aspx

Canada’s Japanese Community.  https://www.rcinet.ca/patrimoine-asiatique-en/le-mois-du-patrimoine-asiatique-au-canada/lepopee-des-canadiens-dorigine-japonaise/

Immigration: 1907 Riots. https://www.library.ubc.ca/chineseinbc/riots.html

I would like to take this space to thank Val Billesberger, archivist and records manager at the Mission Community Archives, who helped me dig into and develop the Mission Japanese story.

Tonamuri family farm, Mission B.C.