Landscape View of the North Thompson River

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This image is a landscape image taken outside of Tashme looking at the North Thompson River. You can see the mountains in the background and the river winding through the main body of the photograph, with long grass in the foreground. On the left side of the image, power lines run alongside the river. The power lines are next to the railroad, with the back of a train just visible as it goes around a bend on the right hand side of the image. On the back of the photograph is a caption that reads "North Thompson River" in both English and Japanese characters.

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.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

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