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This image is taken from the western edge of Tashme, looking east along the main dirt road toward the west edge of the houses. Starting on the left side in the foreground, and working to the right background of the image, the buildings shown are: a garage, the auditorium and school, the ware house, the store, the BCSC general office, the mess, the stable, the school, the single men's quarters, the boiler house, the barber, post office, fire hall, and another school building. The west edge of houses is visible in the upper left hand corner. On the back of the photograph are Japanese characters which read: "Photo o f Tashme in 1942, approx. pop. 2700".

Fumiko Kawata was born in 1938 in Cumberland BC to parents Itoko and Yoshitoshi Kawata. Yoshitoshi's parents were Sowa & Kinshiro Kawata from Ehime prefecture. Kinshiro came to Canada as a farm labourer on the Empress of Russia Dec 19, 1922, his nearest relative at that time was Tomi Kawata of Yanazaki Mura, Nishiwa gori, Ehime Ken, Japan. Itoko and Yoshitoshi were born in Japan and remained Japanese Nationals.

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