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Circa 1911-1913, photo of Ichiro Hayakawa taken at Raymond. Mr. Hayakawa was born in Japan in 1884 and died there in 1975. He lived in Canada from 1905-1926 and came to Raymond around 1910 as a labor contractor with a party of Japanese workmen hired to harvest sugar beets. He opened a small grocery store in Raymond and later opened one in Cranbrook, B.C. In 1912, they moved to a small farm outside Cranbrook. He has three children living in the USA: Fred in Florida, Ruth in Detroit and S.I. Hayakawa, past president of the campus at the University of California and former senator in the US Government, and Grace is living in Japan. History | ![]() |