Outdoor Group Portrait in Front of a Log House

From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.

This image depicts roughly six rows of people, both children and adults, arranged on steps in front of a log building. Clustered at the front of the steps near the edge of the path. There is a group of four children, three boys and one girl to the left of the stairs, all are standing on gravel except for one of the boys who is seated on the railing. Behind them stands a man in a suits and tie with his hands clasped behind his back. On the stairs is clustered a group of seven children, three girls and four boys, they are all standing on the steps except for a girl on the right who is seated on the railing. To the right of the stairs stand two men in suits, the one in front by the girl on the railing is wearing glasses and has his hands clasped in front of him. Arranged behind the children, standing, are roughly four rows of men, all in suits and ties.

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.