A Portrait of a Grade Three Maple Ridge Elementary School Class; Maple Ridge, BC

A Portrait of a Grade Three Maple Ridge Elementary School Class; Maple Ridge, BC

Description

Title Proper A Portrait of a Grade Three Maple Ridge Elementary School Class; Maple Ridge, BC
Date(s) 1936
General material designation
This item contains a textual record.
Scope and content
The image shows one boy and eight girls sitting on a bench with ten boys standing behind them. This Grade Three class includes from left to right:
Front row: Arlene Kanaye Yamaura (David Yamaura's sister) (fourth)
Back row: Kazuo Irizawa (third), David Tsutomu Yamaura (fifth), Yoshimi Mende (ninth), and Nelson Nakano (tenth).
On the back in pen it reads, "Maple Ridge School. Laity & River Rd.
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.
This record was digitized in full.

Structure

Repository Nikkei National Museum
Fonds David Yamaura collection
Series Photographs

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Title

A Portrait of a Grade Three Maple Ridge Elementary School Class; Maple Ridge, BC
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