Outdoor Group Portrait of the Ueda Women, Cumberland BC

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This image consists of roughly five rows of women and young children standing in front of a building. All the rows are standing, wearing dresses or skirts, and coats. In the first row, the woman on the left is holding a child, the next two on the left are standing with children in front of them, as is the woman on the far right. In the second row, the two women on the left are holding babies, as is the fourth woman from the left. In the third row the woman on the far left is holding a baby, and the woman the second from the right is also holding a child.

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.