Hamamura, Nakazo^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23]}

1859 -

• Name	Hamamura, Nakazo
  Birth	20 Jun 1859	Osaka, Japan   [24, 25]
  Gender	Male
  Business Address/Year	1897	Vancouver, BC
  	Address: 209 Hastings St. no. 7 Arcade Vancouver, BC Canada
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1896?-1903	Vancouver, BC
  Marriage	6 Jun 1903	Vancouver, BC   [24]
  	Bride: Fuji Ishida
  	He gave his occupation as photographer; he was 45 and she was nearly 21 years old. In the 1901 Canada census, when she was 19, they are enumerated as married.
  Ethnicity	Japanese
  Person ID	I179	Camera Workers | H, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2021

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He operated a Japanese and fancy goods store in the Arcade building at 211 West Hastings St. and practiced photography. The 1901 Canada census gives his occupation as merchant and notes that he immigrated in 1891. In Jan 1903 he made a three-day visit to Seattle, WA, possibly to purchase merchandise for his store. The U.S. immigration card notes an arrival in Canada of Dec 1900 on the Empress of China. He was also listed in the 1901 and 1902 business directories as operating a boarding house at his own former residence at 207 East Hastings St., having by then relocated his home to 129 Robson St. He was also listed, though not with a first name or initial, as operating a boarding house in the 1895 business directory. He was one of the first directors of the Vancouver Japanese Club which incorporated in Nov 1902. A person with the same names is listed in the Boston, MA, directories between 1905-1908 and working as a clerk. The City of Vancouver Archives prints date to 1901 and some depict a street fair and carnival that year as well as the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York on 30 Sep 1901. The Nikkei National Museum in Vancouver preserves a 1928 group portrait montage of Issei pioneer individuals, one of whom is identified as Nakazo Hamamura (URL accessed 6 Aug 2021: https://www.nikkeimuseum.org/www/item_detail.php?art_id=A5138). IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print surface may be titled and numbered.

  
  

• Sources

  [S45] COLLECTION: BVAA. Prints [S134] COLLECTION: BVA. Information from Ron D'Altroy [S667] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch.org (Web site). Indexed as N Hamamura, male, age 45 St. Albans District manifest records of aliens arriving from foreign contiguous territory; URL (accessed 6 Aug 2021): https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99DQ-P9PQ-H [S28] HEN91, (Vancouver, B.C.: Henderson Directory Co., 1891). Vancouver: not listed [S29] Halliday, W.M., comp., WIL91, (Victoria, B.C.: R.T. Willilams, 1890). Vancouver: not listed [S30] WIL92, (Victoria, B.C.: R.T. Williams, 1892). Vancouver: not listed [S33] Williams' B.C. Directory Co., comp., WIL94, (Victoria, B.C.: Williams' B.C. Directory Co., 1894). Vancouver: not listed [S34] WIL95, (Victoria, B.C.: Williams' B.C. Directory Co., 1895), 562. Vancouver: Hamamura Japanese boarding hse 209 Hastings E [S35] HOD96, (Vancouver, B.C.: Hodgson and Co., 1896). Vancouver: not listed [S36] HEN97, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1897), 628. Vancouver: Hamamura N Japanese goods 6 Arcade h 207 Hastings E [S37] WIL97, (Victoria, B.C.: Williams' B.C. Directory Co., 1897). Vancouver: Removals, New Arrivals, Business Changes and Corrections: Hamamura & Co. Japanese and fancy goods 7 Arcade (not[?] Hamanura) [S38] HEN98, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1898), 562. Vancouver: Hamamura N Japanese goods 6 Arcade h 207 Hastings E [S40] Williams, R.T., comp., WIL99, (Victoria, B.C.: Province Publishing Co., 1899), 618. Vancouver: Hamamura & Co. Japanese store 7 Arcade Vancouver: Hamamura N prop Japanese boarding house 207 Hastings st E [S733] GRE99, (Vancouver, BC: Rowland E. Green, [1900]), 170. Vancouver: Hamamura N Japanese fancy goods No. 7 Arcade [S39] HEN99, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1899), 676. Vancouver: Hamamura N Japanese fancy goods 6 Arcade h 207 Hastings E [S41] HEN00, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1900), 827. Vancouver: Hamamura N Japanese fancy goods 6 Arcade h 207 Hastings E [S42] HEN01, (Victoria, B.C.: Henderson Publishing Co., 1901), 689. Vancouver: Hamamura N Japanese fancy goods 6 Arcate [sic] bdg house 207 Hastings E h 129 Robson [S781] HEN02, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1902), 669. Vancouver: Hamamura N Japanese fancy goods 6 Arcate [sic] bdg house 207 Hastings E h 129 Robson [S782] HEN03, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1903), 697. Vancouver: Hamamura N Japanese goods h 129 Robson [S783] HEN04, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1904). Vancouver: not listed [S786] HENVAN05, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1905). Vancouver: not listed [S785] HEN05, (Vancouver: Henderson Publishing, 1905). Vancouver: not listed [S651] (Vancouver) Sun (Newspaper), 28 Nov 1942, 4. "Forty Years Ago" [S670] BVIPA marriage registration. Registration no. 1903-09-049207 (microfilm B11373); digital facsimile URL via FamilySearch.org (accessed 6 Aug 2021): https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6FFQ-XQX [S647] Census of Canada 1901. Province of BC, District no. 1 Burrard, Sub-district no. D, sub-division no. 15 in Vancouver City, p. 2, line 26