Group Portrait of the Powell Street United Church Kindergarten Graduates; Vancouver, BC

Group Portrait of the Powell Street United Church Kindergarten Graduates; Vancouver, BC

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Title Proper Group Portrait of the Powell Street United Church Kindergarten Graduates; Vancouver, BC
Date(s) 1928
General material designation
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Scope and content
The image shows three rows of boys and girls wearing cap and gowns holding scrolls tied in a ribbon. In the fourth row are what appear to be the teachers consisting of one man and seven women. They pose outside before a concrete cement block building. The caption above reads, "Powell Street United Church Kindergarten Graduates, June 28, 1928."
Name of creator
Kohei Saito was born around 1880 in Shizuoka prefecture. He came to Canada sometime before his marriage to Natsu Mochizuki in 1914 or 1915. They both arrived on the ship Canada Maru on October 16, 1915 which sailed from Yokohama to Victoria, BC. At that time Kohei was a returning Canadian, and had been in Japan for eight months at the address 130 Yodobashi machi, Toyo tama gun, Tokyo fu.
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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Group Portrait of the Powell Street United Church Kindergarten Graduates; Vancouver, BC
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