Map No. 1 of Zoning By-Law 535 1961 as Amended; Pitt Meadows

This item has an indeterminable GMD—digital object is not available at this time.

Item is a large map of Pitt Meadows use to identify and highlight the lands the Japanese Canadians resided in. The map is heavily annotated in certain regions of the map. The identified plots of lands are filled in with one of six colours to indicate the prefecture origins of the residents. The map was created from information gathered in 1961 and was compiled in February 1970 by the Dewdney Alouette Regional District Planning Department and later amended in 1971.

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.