No.13 (December 3, 1908)
Route of Cave Pioneering (cont’d) Besides Kawamoto and Shiraishi, Nelson also has two houses of Inada and Terada, but this has little to do with the pioneering so I will not go any further about them. But there is one thing I would like to mention about Terada: when his son Shin died in Seattle […]
No.15 (March 18, 1912)
Among those I mentioned above, Takagi was still not part of the devil crowd at the time of writing the previous series. He is from Koshigoe area of Sagami (present-day Kanagawa prefecture) and was nominated as a devil candidate by the interior fellows after making big scenes by blustering out with his blasted rolling tongue. […]
No.14 (December 3, 1908)
Route of Cave Pioneering (cont’d) Matsumoto is currently running a sawmill in a place a few miles away from Cranbrook. Indeed, he operates it jointly with two or three other people from Kumamoto and their business is still small in scale, and yet it is rare to see a Japanese business in the interior. From […]
No.16 (March 19, 1912)
Takita used to work at a sawmill in Wattsburg near Cranbrook around the summer of 1908 but frequently went to Cranbrook whenever he had free time. Unlike other places, Cranbrook is relatively tolerant where even straight men freely enter devil caves from back entrances without officially being their customers, have them serve alcohol and drink […]
No.15 (December 5, 1908)
Route of Cave Pioneering (cont’d) Oshige was involved in prostitution in Lethbridge until last spring. Matsumoto rents out three cave houses in Cranbrook. Two of them house the Japanese and the other white prostitutes. The cave in Lethbridge is also owned by Matsumoto and it currently houses Sugabe’s Osachi. The way in which Matsumoto pioneered […]
No.16 & No.17 (Missing)
Note: No. 16 and No. 17 are missing from UBC’s Tairiku Nippō Open Collection. The following story is retrieved from Brothels in Canada (Tairiku Nippō, 1909). On a related note, Itō’s Oume has a mixed-blood daughter. She is about eight years old this year. She currently lives with a white family in Cranbrook and attends […]
No.18 (December 9, 1908)
Route of Cave Pioneering (cont’d) Macleod is not an active place for caves. It was pioneered in the last few years and had some movement of people, but currently is dominated by a prostitute called Mona. Mona is of course her English name and she is a sister of a devil called Kigawa by blood. […]
No.19 (December 10, 1908)
Route of Cave Pioneering (cont’d) Memmy was sick one time in Calgary. When she was ill, she hired Kazuko and they traveled to places to make profit. In fact, they did not plan to travel between places and actually wished to live permanently in one place if their business went well there. However, there was […]