nnm_f249_volume_s1749_file_f122

nnm_f249_volume_s1749_file_f122

Description

Title Proper Photograph of Steveston Kindergarten
Date(s)
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
File consists of one photoprint of a group portrait of Steveston Kindergarten, 1921, with teachers Mrs. Takashima, Mrs. Isomura, Mrs. Shiozaki, Mrs. Takagaki, and Mrs. Horii, and their Japanese Canadian kindergarten students.
Name of creator
Toshio Odamura was a Canadian of Japanese descent who grew up in Steveston, BC where he attended Lord Byng School. In the 1930s, he studied at the Steveston Japanese Language School, and in January 1936 he married Naraye Sakai in Haney, BC. His father, Magoichi Odamura, was a fisherman in Steveston, BC and later farmed in Haney, BC. Toshio Odamura was interned at Slocan, BC, and lived at Bay Farm, moving with his wife to Penticton, BC after the end of the war years and later to Vancouver, BC.
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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