Buildings, Tombstones, and People

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This contact sheet consists of twelve images.

The top row has two images. The image on the left is a building with stairs on the right side. There is also an illegible plaque on the right side of the building. The image on the right is a building with an eagle symbol on it.

The middle row has five images and going from left to right; the first image is an photo of a road in a cemetery. The second image is white, nothing can be seen. The third image is a gravestone that reads "In loving memory/1911 Yoshiro 1930/ ... Sumiko 1932." The fourth image is a gravestone that reads "Mother/Usa Natsumara/1874 - 1970." There is some illegible Japanese characters on the left of the gravestone. The fifth and last image on this row is a photo of two pillars, one on the left and one on the right.

The third row also has five images and going from left to right; the first image is a gravestone that reads "In memory of/Sakamoto/1863 - Nenohachi 1927/1875 Tome - 1937." The second image is a gravestone that reads "Kaji/Father/1898 Tokuzo 1966/Gone but not forgotten." The third image is a building with stairs on the right and left of the image. The fourth image is darker than the other photos and there is a person sitting in a field. The fifth and last image on this row is a photo of two people standing side-by-side in a field. The person on the left is standing with a tool in hand and the person on the right is wearing a hat.

John Mark Read was born on June 8, 1945 in Kelowna, British Columbia. He graduated (from Delbrook Senior Secondary School?) and continued with his education by studying Geography at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He graduated from UBC in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts. John went on to pursue a Master of Arts in the Department of Geography at UBC. He submitted his thesis, "The Pre-War Japanese Canadians of Maple Ridge: Landownership and the Ken Tie," in 1975. While pursuing his Masters, John married his wife, Karen Kiyiomi Mizuno, on July 14, 1973. John went on to work as H.Y. Louie for thirty years and retired in 2005.

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.