Documents

Description

Title Proper	Documents
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized	1942–1946
General material designation	From this series, LOI has digitized 5 textual records and other records.
Scope and content	This series consists of five items from Tashme: a kindergarten diploma, a Sunday School Attendance booklet, a Sunday School Lessons booklet, a list of the first Japanese Citizens returned to Japan, and a list of the residents at Tashme.
Name of creator	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.
Immediate source of acquisition	The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

Structure

Repository	Nikkei National Museum
Fonds	Fumiko Yamada (nee Kawata) collection

Digital Objects (5)

Kindergarten Graduation Diploma from the Church of England in Canada Provincial Board of Mission; Tashme, BC

Fumiko Kawata's Tashme Buddhist Sunday School Attendance Card; Tashme, BC

Buddhist Sunday School Lessons; Tashme, BC

Name Lisa of Japanese Repatriate Transpacific Passengers First Group; Tashme, BC

List of the Residents and their Houses at Tashme; Tashme, BC

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Terminology

Readers of these historical materials will encounter derogatory references to Japanese Canadians and euphemisms used to obscure the intent and impacts of the internment and dispossession. While these are important realities of the history, the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective urges users to carefully consider their own terminological choices in writing and speaking about this topic today as we confront past injustice. See our statement on terminology, and related sources here.