Biografie
He arrived first in Victoria in 1877.
He arrived in New Westminster BC in 1877 and is reported to have been the first Japanese person registered in Canada.
He worked as a foreman of railway workers. Then he worked in a salmon cannery, and later in partnership with an Italian fisherman. Later he purchased a hotel serving Japanese immigrants.
He made money selling supplies to gold miners in the Klondike Goldrush and with the profits opened three oriental art stores in Victoria under the name J. Manzo Nagano.
In 1923 he returned to Japan.
Referenzen
- Brissenden, Constance with Larry Loyie (1997) Greater Vancouver Hall of Fame. In The Greater Vancouver Book: an urban encyclopedia. Ed. Chuck Davis. Vancouver BC: Linkman Press
- Nakayama, Gordon G. (1983)
