Fumiko Yamada (nee Kawata) collection
Description
| Title Proper | Fumiko Yamada (nee Kawata) collection |
| Date(s) of material from this resource digitized | 1926–1946 |
| General material designation |
From this fonds, LOI has digitized 94 textual records and other records.
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| 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.
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| Immediate source of acquisition |
The digital copies of the records were
acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
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Structure
| Repository | Nikkei National Museum |
Digital Objects (94)
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Title
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.