Outdoor Group Photograph of Men at the Thunder River Road Camp on a Bridge

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This image consists of sixteen men arranged in approximate three rows, on a plank and log bridge spanning Thunder River. The first row is kneeling or crouching, with all the men dressed in work clothes. The man on the far left has a mustache and is holding a hammer in his left hand, and what appears to be a level in his right. The man third to the left is crouching, and has tools in his left hand. The man third to the right is wearing a hat, and holding a saw in his left hand. The second and third rows are both standing, the men are wearing work clothes and most have their hand in their pockets. In the background is a forest and three buildings: one small, one large with wood stacked up beside it, and the one closest to the foreground is small, perhaps a shed with a empty window visible.

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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