​Letter to the Custodian from Shigeo Furukawa

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Scanned black-and-white microfilm of a typewritten copy of a letter addressed to the government from Shigeo Furukawa regarding dispossession of their property.
Sender's Address
Minto Mine, British Columbia
Recipient Address
​The Custodian,
506 Royal Bank Building,
Vancouver, British Columbia
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COMPLAINT LETTER

Copy to Mr. Shears

Minto Mine, B.C.
April 15, 1946

The Custodian,
506 Royal Bank Building,
Vancouver, B. C.

Dear Sir:

Mr. Genzaburo Nakamura, my brother-in-law, in whose house at 374 E. Cordova Street, Vancouver, B. C., I have deposited my chattels for safe keeping, wrote me the other day requesting me to mark my belongings on the auction list and file in to your office the claim for my part of the proceeds of auction.

In connection with the above I hereby state that, as I mentioned in my letter of January 21, 1946, I have stored and locked up in one of the room in the said house the above chatteles for safe keeping and reported the above fact to your office only for protection for the duration of war, but not for sale.

Whole affairs created by your alleged sale of the chattels without consents of the owners seems to be a mess, and therefore, I refrain to take any step regarding this matter at present but leave my part of claim for settlement with you in future day when all government restrictions presently imposed upon me will be lifted.

Yours very truly,

"S. Furukawa"
S. Fu ukawa #05959

Shigeo FURUKAWA, File 3121