An Outdoor Group Portrait of the Strathcona Public School Softball Team; Vancouver, BC

From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.

An outdoor group portrait of two rows of men and boys sitting on the stone steps of a building. The majority of the boys are wearing dark coloured sweaters over collared shirts and slacks. There are two unidentified men sitting in the back row, one sitting on the far left and the other one sitting on the far right. The man on the left is wearing a dark coloured long sleeved shirt, while the man on the right is wearing a light coloured three piece suit. There are two baseball bats and baseball gloves with baseball directly in front of the boy seated in the middle of the front row. On the back of the photograph, it reads in blue and black ink the following names:

" Teiso [Uigens?], G Suzuki, Avata [Forgawa?], [Liandro Battistoni?], Tatsuo Kagawa, Kouri Sogawa, Y Matsui, Tiyio [illegible].

In the front row from left to right are Al Tokiwa, unidentified, Yo Nishimura, Teiso Uyeno and Yutaka Dick Matsui.

In the back row from left to right are unidentified Phys Ed teacher, Tatsuo Fred Kagawa, George Suzuki, Kohei Sogawa, unidentified and Principal Patterson.

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.

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.