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

From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.

The image shows seven girls sitting on a bench, with six boys standing behind them, and five boys and one woman in the back row. This class included from left to right:

Front row: Rebecca Terumi Yamaura (fourth)

Second row: Billy Rikely (third)

Back row: Thomas Watanabe (second), Arthur Watanabe (fifth), and George Watanabe (sixth).

On the back in pen it reads, "Maple Ridge School. Hammond, BC. Grade 2.

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.