Tokitaro Takeshima Matsubichi
Role: Photographer and business owner
Date of birth: 07 Mar 1890
Date of death: 29 May 1974
Age at death: 84
Tokitaro Takeshima Matsubichi, born on March 7th, 1890, in Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu in Japan, and immigrated to Canada as a teenager. He apprenticed under Senjiro Hayashi at Hayashi Studios in Cumberland, B.C. and later established his own photo studio. In 1942 the Matsubichi family was forced into internment and had to leave behind the business and their home. After internment the family settled in Montreal.