Biografie
As a young man he received a scholarship to study English language and Chinese Classics in Tokyo.
In 1890 he travelled to work in Vacaville California as a farm labourer.
In 1893 he organized a farm labour organization for Japanese people on the Pacific coast.
He travelled back to Japan in 1894.
In 1898 he travelled to the Klondike Gold Rush with his friend Mr. Ohori.
He wrote a book about his unsuccessful search for gold there.
In 1902 he negotiated an agreement to transport salted salmon from Alaska to Japan. The damage by fire of his schooner Higashi Maru was devasting financially.
In 1904 he set up a factory to produce fish fertilizer but was unsuccessful.
He purchased a schooner named Dawson and a gasoline boat called the Chisato.
He was a Japanese prospector who discovered copper at Ikeda Cove in 1906.
Benannte Orte
Arichika Island (BC); Arichika Shoal (BC); Ikeda Cove (BC); Ikeda Point (BC)
Anekdoten
Arichika Island, Arichika Shoal (It was located northeast of Huxley Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands. It was named for Arichika Ikeda.)
Referenzen
- Nakayama, Gordon G. (1983)
- Dalzell, Kathleen E. (1973)
- BCELP Geographical Place Names Cards Correspondence To/From BC Chief Geographer
