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

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

Description

Title Proper Fumiko Kawata's Tashme Buddhist Sunday School Attendance Card; Tashme, BC
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1943
General material designation
From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.
Scope and content
This item is Fumiko Kawata's attendance card for the Tashme Buddhist Sunday School. Written on the outside is: Tashme Buddhist Sunday School Attendance Card, Class: Matsu, Name: Kawata, Fumiko, House No. 232. On the inside are all the months, starting with June on the left side and going to May on the right side, with squares for days. Each square is filled with either a stamp, or a sticker to mark attendance.
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.
This record was digitized in full.

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