An Outdoor Commemorative Group Portrait of the Tashme Senior League Baseball Champions; Tashme, BC

From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.

This image contains three rows of men in baseball uniforms, including hats and gloves. From the bottom left to the top right the people shown are: Heike, Kamino, A. Mizuguchi, Fujimoto, Mende, Matsumiya, Y. Watanabe, Harafuji, Watanabe, Omotani, Watanabe, T. Mizuguchi, Hyakawa, Nishimura, and Moritsugu. The first row is crouching while the second two rows are standing. In front of the first row, between Mizuguchi and Fujimoto two bats are crossed with a mitt on top. Behind the champions are two rows of men, specators who watched the game. Written along the bottom of the image is: "1943 Arawashis Tashme Senior League Baseball Champions". The back of the photograph has been signed by members of the team.

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.