| description | The black and white image shows a large group of students lined up on the steps of a building, with teachers and administrators in the very back row. The image is of the grade eight graduating class at Strathcona Public School in Vancouver BC, and was taken in June 1942. The photograph was probably taken early since over 50% of the students were of Japanese ancestry and had to evacuate ninety miles from the coast as a security risk during the Second World War. Many of the individuals in this photograph have been identified. Note that only Japanese-Canadian students have been numbered and identified.
First row, left to right: Lydia (Melnyk) Noble, Helen Wong, Roma, unidentified, Anna Frost, Kazuko Nakamura, Kinuko Eto, Yoshiko Jean (Hirashima) Seki, Kimiko Hashimoto, Eleanor (?), unidentified, Mabel Kett, Ray Murase, Kanako (Matsui) Matsuo, and unidentified.
Second row, left to right: unidentified, unidentified, Akiyo (Shishido) Hayashi (slightly to the back), Akiko Jane Tsujimoto (to the front), Yaeko Denise Nishimura (to the back), Sachi (Naikawa) Nishio (with pinned up curled hair), Makiko (Ioguri) Shinobu, Michiko Shinizu (tall), unidentified, Hiroye Tomiyama, and unidentified.
The rest of the individuals will be named in rows, left to right, working towards the back.
Starting from the third row: Yoneko Yano, Takako (Nagata) Sakamoto, unidentified, unidentified, Keiko Kay (Tsushima) Ohashi, Chizuko Okuno, unidentified, Mitsuko Sada, Tetsuko Kato, Frances (Imai) Isomura, and Kathleen (Okawa) Takahashi.
Fourth row: Kazuyo Sagara, unidentified, Fumi June (Bando) Kodama, unidentified, Nichiko Kimura, unidentified, Mitsuye (Koyanagi) Omoto, unidentified, and unidentified.
Uppermost four to five rows includes several identified individuals, who will be named starting from the top, left to right. Miss T. I. Grant, for example, is the lady second from the left in the furthest row, and to her left is Mr. Glass, Mr. H. E. Patterson, Mr. McKeown, undidentified, and Mr. Sutherland (end of row).
Below (next row), Toshio Shigeishi, Tatsuo Okumura, Tatsuo Koyanagi, Yoshio Togawa, Kazuyoshi Nakagawa, Miss Bolton, Miss McKinnon, Yoshinori Hiraki, Nao Iwata (Naoyoshi).
Next row, Yoshikazu Hamaoka, Roy Ozawa, Harry Ikehuchi (?) Toshioki Shigeishi, Shig Mitsuki, and Aki Hamigami.
Next row, Haruye Helen Jinde, Masumi Matsuba, Laura Fong, Constance Yip, and Eleanor Jo. |