Outdoor Group Photo

From this item, LOI has digitized a textual record.

This contact sheet consists of a single image that has been cut out from another contact sheet. The image is a photo of another photo; there is a border around the image. The image shows a large number of men, women, and children posing for an outdoor group photo. On the upper right hand corner of the image are some Japanese characters forming three lines of text.

John Mark Read was born on June 8, 1945 in Kelowna, British Columbia. He graduated (from Delbrook Senior Secondary School?) and continued with his education by studying Geography at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He graduated from UBC in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts. John went on to pursue a Master of Arts in the Department of Geography at UBC. He submitted his thesis, "The Pre-War Japanese Canadians of Maple Ridge: Landownership and the Ken Tie," in 1975. While pursuing his Masters, John married his wife, Karen Kiyiomi Mizuno, on July 14, 1973. John went on to work as H.Y. Louie for thirty years and retired in 2005.

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.