Yamake Family collection

Yamake Family collection

Description

Title Proper Yamake Family collection
Date(s) 1920–1997
General material designation
This fonds contains a textual record.
Scope and content
The collection consists of baking tools and drawings used by the Yamake Family when they owned a bakery and two interviews of Shirley Omatsu (before Kakutani, nee Yamake). The first discusses her father's shop and the manju making tools that make up this collection. The second interview focuses on Shirley's memories of Powell Street in Vancouver, BC.
(Many of the tools were made by one of the sheet-metal shops in the area: Nishihata's at 457 Powell Street, Akiyama Sheet Metal at 368 Powell Street or BC Hardware on Main Street. Otherwise they were purchased directly from Japan.)
Name of creator
Junzo Yamake (father of the donors) owned a bakery called Kasuga-kashiten at 359 Powell Street from the mid 1920s to 1941.
Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.

Structure

Repository Nikkei National Museum

Digital Objects (1)

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Yamake Family collection
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Terminology

Readers of these historical materials will encounter derogatory references to Japanese Canadians and euphemisms used to obscure the intent and impacts of the internment and dispossession. While these are important realities of the history, the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective urges users to carefully consider their own terminological choices in writing and speaking about this topic today as we confront past injustice. See our statement on terminology, and related sources here.