Map of Portion of Municipality of Maple Ridge 1930

This item has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.

Item is a large map of a portion of the municipality of Maple Ridge. The map has been annotated to identify areas where Japanese Canadians resided in 1930. In addition to the identification of the residence of the Japanese Canadians, the identified plots of land are filled in with various colours to indicate the prefectures they came from. The prefectures include Fukuoka (pink), Hiroshima (yellow), Kumamoto (red), Yamaguchi (orange), Kagoshima (green), Okayama (light blue), Kanagawa (dark blue), Shizuoka (purple). The number of identified plots of land are spread out through Maple Ridge with some areas being more dense than others.

A simplified version of the map is available on a separate roll of paper that can be overlaid the original map. This simplified version contains nothing but hand drawn outlines of the identified properties and the corresponding prefectures they came from.

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.