A Group Portrait of the Fifth Annual JCCA Picnic at Peace Arch Park; White Rock, BC

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The image shows approximately four rows of men, women and children seated and standing in a park in front of trees. The caption on the bottom reads, "5th Annual JCCA Picnic at Peace Arch Park, August 8, 1954. Photo by JS Murakami, Vancouver, BC". In the back row is David Yamaura (first male from the left). Kneeling in the second row is Matsuko Kazuta (second from the left) and in front of her is Bruce Kazuta (first from the left). Standing on the far right in the hat is George Kazuta. In the back row in the middle standing to the left of a woman wearing a veiled hat is Bob (Kanao) Abe; he is wearing glasses.

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.

This record was digitized in full.