A Group Photograph at a Funeral; Tashme, BC

A Group Photograph at a Funeral; Tashme, BC

Description

Title Proper A Group Photograph at a Funeral; Tashme, BC
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1944
General material designation
From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.
Scope and content
This image consists of a large group of people all dressed in somber colors standing in front of a building. On the left edge of the image is a coffin with flowers stacked in front of it. There are stairs on the left edge leading up to the building, also with flowers in front. At the very left of the image is a man in priest garb and a group of six people, one is a girl holding a plaque.
Name of creator
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.
Immediate source of acquisition
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.

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A Group Photograph at a Funeral; Tashme, BC
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Terminology

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