Blocking 48 Gang

Blocking 48 Gang
Creator(s): 
Shimizu, Yon
Year: 
1942
Type(s): 
Photograph
Physical Description: 
b&w
Source: 
DVD of Yon Shimizu's scrapbook
Notes: 
Thinning or "blocking" the sugar beets; left to right: S. Miyashita, Y. Madokoro, S. Kawahara, J. Henmi; Yon Shimizu, the photographer, is a Japanese-Canadian who was exiled from the west coast of Canada to Ontario during the second World War. In 1942, he worked as a farm labourer with the Ontario Farm Service Force near Glencoe; no .tiff file is available
Subject(s): 
Miyashita, S.
Madokoro, Yosh
Kawahara, S.
Henmi, Jack
Japanese Canadian Exiles
Ontario Farm Service Force. Camp Glencoe
Sugar Beet Farming
Farms
Farm Labourers
World War II
Place(s): 
Glencoe (Ontario)
Rights: 
Public Domain
Repository: 
University of Windsor. Leddy Library