Fumiko Yamada (nee Kawata) collection

Fumiko Yamada (nee Kawata) collection

Description

Title Proper Fumiko Yamada (nee Kawata) collection
Date(s) 1926–1946
General material designation
This fonds contains 94 textual records and other records.
Scope and content
This collection consists of two series: photographs and documents. There is one album of photographs from Thunder River and Tashme as well as digital images. The documents series consists of two address lists: Tashme residents, and the first group of deportees/exiles from Tashme, as well as a Tashme Buddhist Sunday School prayer book and attendance record. Digital images are of Royston, Cumberland, Vancouver Island images.
Name of creator
Fumiko Kawata was born in 1938 in Cumberland BC to parents Itoko and Yoshitoshi Kawata. Yoshitoshi's parents were Sowa & Kinshiro Kawata from Ehime prefecture. Kinshiro came to Canada as a farm labourer on the Empress of Russia Dec 19, 1922, his nearest relative at that time was Tomi Kawata of Yanazaki Mura, Nishiwa gori, Ehime Ken, Japan. Itoko and Yoshitoshi were born in Japan and remained Japanese Nationals.
Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

Structure

Repository Nikkei National Museum

Digital Objects (94)

Metadata

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Fumiko Yamada (nee Kawata) collection
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Terminology

Readers of these historical materials will encounter derogatory references to Japanese Canadians and euphemisms used to obscure the intent and impacts of the internment and dispossession. While these are important realities of the history, the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective urges users to carefully consider their own terminological choices in writing and speaking about this topic today as we confront past injustice. See our statement on terminology, and related sources here.