Yamaura Family Portrait; Hammond, BC

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The image shows a man sitting on a chair with a young boy on his lap and two boys standing beside them. A woman is standing in behind the boys. This is a Yamaura family portrait taken in 1926 in Hammond, now Maple Ridge. The father is Kinoe Yamaura, mother is Iwama Yamaura, and the boys from left to right are David Tsutomu, Bill Hiromu, and Tom Yasuyuki.

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.

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