A Wood Plank Road Leading to a Cluster of Houses; Royston, BC

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This image depicts part of the village of Royston. In the foreground is a road made out of wooden planks leading to a cluster of three, single story houses, raised off the ground. In front of the group of houses is a small cluster of people. On the left hand side of the image there is a large wooden house with a smaller building beside it. On the left of the road is stacked wood, and cut wood planks. There are black marks on the photograph, possible from the album in which they were originally stored before being scanned; they are in the upper and lower right, and bottom left edges.

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.