titleGroup Portrait of the Cumberland Group of Japanese Road Builders; Thunder River, BC

 

namePhotograph

 

dateCirca 1943

 

descriptionThis image consists of roughly two rows of men, both seated and standing, in front of a building at the Thunder River Road Camp. The men are those removed from Cumberland and sent to work on the road projects in the interior of British Columbia during 1942. The first row is seated, with the exception of a man who stands on the right edge. All the men are dressed in white shirts and dark pants wearing boots with the exception of the man four from the left who is wearing a dark collared shirt, and the man four from the right who is wearing wooden sandals. The second row is all standing, dressed in a similar fashion to the front row. The men are of various ages, from young adult to older men with some graying hair. On the back is written: "Cumberland Group, Thunder River B.C."

 


 

Identified in the photograph is: Sadamu Sato, first row, second from the right.

 

part ofFumiko Yamada (nee Kawata) collection
number2014.20.1.1.6

 

organisation

 

Nikkei National Museum
accessOpen