Tokusuke Oyakawa | |
Tokusuke Oyakawa (aged 107) with his wife | |
Birth: | 27 February 1888 Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan |
Death: | c.18 November 1997 Nipigon, Ontario, Canada |
Age: | 109 years, c.264 days |
Country: | JPNCAN |
Centenarian |
Tokusuke "Tony" Oyakawa [Japanese: 親川徳助] (27 February 1888 – c.18 November 1997) was a Japanese-Canadian centenarian who was the oldest known living man in Canada.
Biography[]
Tokusuke Oyakawa was born in Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan on 27 February 1888. In 1898, he started to work in mountains to support his family.
He moved to Canada in 1905 or 1907 (sources differ). He worked on railway, felling trees, on a salmon canning factory and as a farmer.
Later, he returned to Okinawa and met his wife in 1935. His first son was born in 1939. In 1948, he moved to Nipigon, Ontario, Canada. He retired in 1965.
He became the oldest known living man in Canada, following the death of 111-year-old Arthur Nash on 4 November 1996.
Tokusuke Oyakawa died in Nipigon, Ontario, Canada around 18 November 1997 at the age of 109 years, c.264 days. His wife, Ushi Amy (Miyahira) Oyakawa, died in December 2000 at the age of 95.
Following his death, 109-year-old Gustav Wikberg became the oldest known living man in Canada.
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References[]
- 1907 Ship record Ancestry
- スライド 1 - 1st World Congress on Healthy Ageing pdf, 1995
- Data Collection Site (Archived)
- Ushi Amy (Miyahira) Oyakawa obituary, December 2000 (dead link)
- Island Icons – Gerontologist Craig Willcox (extended interview) Travel67, 2 February 2010
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Joseph Saint-Amour • Unknown • Eli Lindsay • Stuart Bott • Unknown • Adam McDonald • Arthur Critchfield • Adalbert Marchand • Herman Smith-Johannsen • William Hargest • Philo McCandless • George Ives • Chester Pushie • Arthur Nash • Tokusuke Oyakawa • Gustav Wikberg • Theodore Remfert • James Grant • Romeo Tremblay • Raphael Cree • John Gard • Montague Little • Lazare Gionet • Nicholas Salamis • Harold Dunichand • Ernest MacPherson • William Thomas • Leon Robitaille • Johannes Markusson • David Wiener • Sam Baker • Joseph Ernest Poupart • Zoltan Sarosy • Robert Wiener • Ja Hyung Lee • Reuben Sinclair • Albert Middleton |