title

 

Ebata Family collection

 

general material designation

 

[graphic material]
extent

 

21 photographs

 

date

 

1923-1944

 

scope and content

 

The collection consists of black and white images from pre Second World War and the Internment period. Settings of the photographs include Powell Street and the Buddhist Church in Vancouver, BC as well as Lemon Creek and Tashme, BC and the Yellowhead Highway Road Camp, AB.

 

biography

 

Masukichi Ebata and his wife, Tayo Ebata, lived in the Powell Street area of Vancouver, BC before World War II. There they gave birth to Chizuko Ebata, Akio Ebata, Kazue Kozaka (nee Ebata) and Shigeyoshi Ebata. The children went to Japan with their grandmother Tazu Ebata before the war started.

 


 

Masukichi Ebata was sent to work in the Yellowhead Highway Road Camp, Alberta and then on to Angler, Ontario. Tayo Ebata at that time was interned in Lemon Creek, BC and later Tashme, BC (where her sister, Yae Nakamoto, was also interned). Throughout the war, their children remained in Japan with their grandmother. Shigeyoshi returned to Canada in 1957, Chizuko in 1962 and Kazue in 1970. Akio remained and still lives in Japan. Chizuko passed away in 2005.

 


 

 

number

 

2011.58

 

organisation

 

Nikkei National Museum
access

 

Open