Photographs

Photographs

Description

Title Proper Photographs
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1926–1954
General material designation
From this series, LOI has digitized 33 textual records and other records.
Scope and content
This series consists of black and white photographs of the Yamaura family in 1926, the internment from 1942 to 1949, street portraits taken in 1942 and 1952, two JCCA picnics in 1951 and 1954.
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.

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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.