Nurse's Station at Tashme Hospital; Tashme, BC

From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.

This image depicts a nurse's station at Tashme hospital. There is a low table with a drawer covered in a towel with first aid supplies on top. Those that can be identified include: gloves, medical scissors, gauze, tongue depressors, a tray, and various unidentified bottles. There are two wooden chairs on either side of the table, and they are positioned along a wall with opened windows. At the right edge of the image is a sink and cupboards. On the back of the photograph is written: "Tashme" in English, and Japanese characters that translate to: "April 8, 21st Year of Showa".

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.

This record was digitized in full.