David Yamaura collection

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

Structure

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.