An Outdoor Group Portrait of Children and a Woman in Front of a Picket Fence; Royston, BC

From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.

This image consists of roughly four rows of young children. The first row of children are seated, on the leftmost side a woman is holding a young boy on his lap. On the rightmost side of the front row is a woman in a cardigan wearing a headband. The second and third rows contain children standing. The fourth row contains two women standing; the one on the right is holding a young girl.

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.