David Yamaura collection

This fonds contains 36 textual records and other records.

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.

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.

The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.