Outdoor Group Photograph of Women in front of a House at Tashme; Tashme, BC

From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.

This image depicts a group of five women in two rows. From bottom left to upper right they are: Hawafuji, Tahara, Nishimura, Abe, and Kawata. Hawafuji is wearing a black dress with a light coloured jacket, black heels and a necklace is visible. Tahara has her hair tied back and is wearing a buttoned up dress coat over a long dress and dark shoes. Nishimura is wearing a dark dress suit with a white shirt and dark heels. Abe is wearing a buttoned up jacket. Kawata is wearing an open jacket and a white dress. They are Hawafuji, Tahara, and Nishimura are standing on a wooden path leading up to the doorway of a house. Abe and Kawata are standing on the steps in front of the door. On the right edge of the photo is a stack of wood underneath a shelf.

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.