| title | Tsutomu Tom Kimoto collection |
| general material designation | [graphic material] |
| extent | 677 photographs, 8 postcards, 1 newspaper clipping, and 1 album |
| date | 1935-1946 |
| scope and content | This collection consists of 660 black and white photographs, seventeen coloured photographs, five black and white postcards, three coloured postcards, and one newspaper clipping enclosed in an album. The album covers are white and bound with a white piece of string. On the front cover are, as raised images, a framed picture, candlesticks, model boat, fireplace, and two chairs coloured in red and brown, and the word "photographs". On the inside of the front cover it reads, "Mr Tsutomu Tom Kimoto. Popoff Ranch. Slocan City. BC. July 1946" and some kanji. The pages are black paper. Most photographs are held with gold triangles at their corners. Some are glued onto the page. On the first page written in white pen it reads, "Popoff Ranch. Slocan City. BC". A few of the items are from Cumberland before the internment . However, the majority of the photographs were taken during the internment in Hastings Park, Popoff, Bay Farm, Rosebery, Slocan City, and Vernon. |
| biography | Tsutomu "Tom" Kimoto aka "Stumpo" was born on January 28, 1928 in Cumberland, BC to Sanji and Kishi Kimoto. He was the sixth of Sanji and Kishi's seven children. Sanji had three other children from two different marriages prior to his marriage to Kishi.
Tsutomu played baseball in Southern Alberta in the 1950's. He married Akiko Suto on January 22, 1955. They lived in the Crowsnest Pass, AB; Natal, BC and Fernie, BC They had five children - Cheryl, Tom, Dixie, Brenda and Dwayne. Cheryl and Dixie died as children. When he retired from the sawmill in 1990, he received a 49.9 year pension with the International Woodworker Association (IWA).
Tsutomu passed away on November 22, 1994.
He is survived by his wife and three children and six grandchildren. |
| number | 2012.11 |
| organisation | Nikkei National Museum |
| access | Open |