Two lines of Patients in Beds at Tashme Hospital; Tashme, BC

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This image depicts one of the wings at Tashme Hospital. There are two rows of patients each set against a wall, one on the inside and one on the outside wall which also is covered with windows. In the bottom right hand corner is a group of people visiting one of the patients. There is a woman looking at the camera in the second bed on the right who is lying propped up. In the third bed on the right there is a man sitting with a tray at his feet. A doctor is tending to a patient in the fourth bed on the right. Written on the back is "Tashme" 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.

This record was digitized in full.