Cooks and Domestics

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It was not unusual for Japanese Canadians to work in the service industry. The Issei found work in restaurants, as cooks, or in hotels, as housekeepers.
Harry Yoichi Hironaka was head cook at the Dallas Hotel for a number of years.
It was also respectable for Japanese Canadians to work as domestics. James Zenkichi Shimbashi, who had also worked as a cook at the Dallas Hotel, worked as a cook on the ranch owned by Edward, Prince of Wales.
Many other Japanese Canadians worked as household help throughout the region.