Greenwood, Trains, and Baseball

Greenwood, Trains, and Baseball

Description

Title Proper Greenwood, Trains, and Baseball
Date(s) 1975
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This contact sheet consists of ten images.
Going from left to right on the top row; the first image shows a group men standing in front of a building under a sign that reads "GREENWOOD." There is also a sign to the right that says "CANADIAN PACIFIC EXPRESS." The second image shows a group of men, women, and children inside a train. The third image shows a group of people standing outside of a train. The fourth image shows a group of people, mainly women, standing outside of a train. The fifth and last image on this row shows a group of people waving to the passengers on the train.
Going from left to right on the bottom row; the first image is a baseball team photo. The words "GREENWOOD LABOR DAY - 1943" can also be found on bottom left hand corner of the image. The second image shows an overview of a town. The third image shows a picture of children in the foreground and adults behind the children. The fourth image is similar to the third image but the children are in different poses and the angle of the shot is different. The fifth image is a group of people standing outside and waiting in front of some vehicles.
Name of creator
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.
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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