Outdoor Group Portrait of the Heike Family; Tashme, BC

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This image depicts ten members of the Heike family arranged in two rows in front of their house at Tashme. Seated on a bench in the first row, from the left, is a man in a vest, tie, and dress shirt and pants with his left hand on his hip. Seated beside him is a young boy wearing a striped t-shirt and shorts. Next to him is a young girl in a dress and jacket, held against a woman’s side. The woman has her right arm around the girl’s waist and is wearing a dress and sweater. On the end of the bench near the right edge of the photograph are two more boys, the one on the rightmost edge is wearing glasses. The second row consists of four young men standing in collared shirts.

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.