Thesis

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File consists of the Master thesis "The Pre-War Japanese Canadians of Maple Ridge: Landownership and the Ken Tie" by John Mark Read. The thesis contains a cover page, permissions, abstract, table of contents, list of tables, maps, figures, plates, and acknowledgments. The thesis itself is ninety-six pages long. At the back of the thesis, biographical and microfiche information can be found in addition to two maps of Japanese landowners in Maple Ridge in the years of 1930 and 1940.

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.

No digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.