Nikkei Voice Edition - November
2012.11.36 |
What we know:
Date: c. 1944
Title: A Wiener Roast Party; Popoff, BC
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Lost and Found is a project created by the Nikkei National Museum with featured posts from our friends aimed to generate a conversation across our community. This conversation, with your help, will let us put names to faces and places. Each week we will post new photographs and we hope you will join in by leaving your comments on who or where or when or what you think about the photograph. Visit our online collection to explore more photographs or stop by and visit our museum!
2012.11.36 |
Greetings from Colorado,
ReplyDeleteWhat a pleasant surprise to see this. Thank you kindly for posting it, of which we also have a copy in our family album. My late Uncle, Kazuo Takamatsu (1922-1947), stands in the back row, fourth from the right. He was the eldest son of Sadakichi and Tetsu Takamatsu of Inverness and later Bay Farm.
According to my Aunties, Mrs. Kaye Takamatsu-Butler and Ms. Kuni Takamatsu of Montreal, this picture was snapped near the ice rink in Bay Farm by Mr. Tak Toyota, whose studio was located downtown in Slocan City. Mr. Toyota took many fine photographs chronicling the happier moments during the internment, and graciously snapped the last family photo of the Takamatsus together at Bay Farm in April 1946 before the family's deportation in October of that year.
We very much appreciate the work you are doing. Thank you again.
Kindest regards,
Will Takamatsu Thompson
(son of Matsue Takamatsu)
Denver, Colorado