Outdoor Photograph of the Presentation of the 1944 May Queen and Court; Tashme, BC

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This image depicts the May Queen and her court on a stage being presented. On the left of the stage are three men, scout masters, dressed in Scout uniforms. The man second to the left, in the middle and to the front, is holding what appears to be the English flag. Behind them are two men seated, and wearing suits. The May court is arranged in the cent of the stage, all seated with two on a raised platform. The stage is surrounded by a fence decorated with pine bows with steps between two sections leading up to the stage. In the bottom left corner of the image is s a woman with four children, two boys dressed in white collared shirts and suspenders and a young girl in a floral print dress. On the right hand side of the image is another group of children, two girls in dresses, three boys in white collared shirts, pants, and suspenders and one boy in a dark cardigan. Standing near the right edge of the stage by a pine tree is a man wearing a hat and a white collared shirt and dark pants.

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.