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

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The image shows seven girls sitting on a bench in the front row, seven boys standing behind them in the second row, nine boys standing in the back row, and one woman on the right of the children. In this Maple Ridge Elementary School class from 1933 or 1934 from left to right are:

Front row: Arlene Kanaye Yamaura (seventh)

Second row: Robert Higgins (first), David Tsutomu Yamaura (third), Bill Hiromu Yamaura (fourth)

Back row: Yoshimi Mende (fourth), Kazuo Irizawa (seventh), Mende (eighth), Nelson Nakano (ninth), and Ms Bailey as the teacher.

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.