A Portrait of a Maple Ridge Elementary School Class; Maple Ridge, BC
Description
Title Proper | A Portrait of a Maple Ridge Elementary School Class; Maple Ridge, BC |
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized | 1932 |
General material designation |
From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.
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Scope and content |
The image shows seven boys sitting on the ground in the front row, ten girls sitting
on a bench in the second row, five boys and three girls standing behind them in the
third row, and a woman and seven boys standing in the back row. The students in this
Maple Ridge Elementary School class from 1931 or 1932 from left to right are:
Front row: Yoshimi Mende (seventh)
Third row: Bill Hiromu Yamaura (seventh), Makoto Kawamoto (eighth)
Back row: Miss Baileey [sic] (the teacher) and David Tsutomu Yamaura (first student).
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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.
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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.
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Structure
Repository | Nikkei National Museum |
Fonds | David Yamaura collection |
Series | Photographs |
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Title
A Portrait of a Maple Ridge Elementary School Class; Maple Ridge, BC
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