David Yamaura collection
Description
Title Proper | David Yamaura collection |
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized | 1926–1993 |
General material designation |
From this fonds, LOI has digitized 36 textual records and other records.
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Scope and content |
The collection consists of two series. The first series consists of black and white
photographs showing a portrait of the Yamaura family, school group portraits in Maple
Ridge and Hammond, BC, one image of Port Hammond Japanese Hall, internment photographs
from Slocan, BC and Ontario, and JCCA picnic photographs. It also contains two sets
of negatives. The second series consists of a BC Japanese Canadian directory, forty
and fifty year reunion directories of Hammond, Ruskin, Haney, Pitt Meadows, and Whonnock,
a fifty-one year reunion directory of East Lillooet, BC interned Japanese Canadians,
and three immigration identification cards of the Yamaura family from 1927.
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Name of creator |
David Yamaura
was born on Townline Road in Port Hammond BC in 1925. His immigrant father, Kinoe
Yamaura, was born in Nagano-ken in Japan and his mother, Iwama (nee Iwashita), was
Kinoe's second wife. Kinoe had a daughter from his first marriage, and 6 children
from his second marriage. David's siblings consist of: Tom (born in 1921), Bill (born
in1924), Arlene Kanaye (born in 1926), Rebecca Terumi (born in 1930), and Sumiye (Ebbesen)
(born in 1932). Noboko was Kinoe's daughter from his first marriage to a Kitagawa.
Kinoe worked as a night fireman at Brown's Brothers Nursery also on Townline Road.
His job was to keep the furnace hot for the hot houses.
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Immediate source of acquisition |
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research
Collective between 2014 and 2018.
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Structure
Repository | Nikkei National Museum |
Digital Objects (36)
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David Yamaura 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.