Group Portrait of the Tashme Boy Scouts in Front of Forest; Tashme, BC

From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.

This image consists of roughly four rows of young boys dressed in boy scout uniforms of shorts, collared shirt, scarves, and hats. The first row is seated on a wooden bench, the two on their left have their hands on their laps, while the rest of the boy s have their arms crossed over their chests. The back three rows are all standing. The boys on the leftmost edge, and rightmost edge, of the second row are both holding flags. The boy on the left is holding what appears to be the flag of England while the flag of the boy on the right cannot be identified. In front of the first row are two smaller Boy Scout pendants crossed behind a small cup.

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.