​Letter to the Custodian's Office from Kumeji Shimoda

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Scanned black-and-white microfilm of a typewritten copy of a letter addressed to the government from Kumeji Shimoda regarding dispossession of their property.
c/o J.E. Lawlor,
Box 381,
Picture Butte, Alberta
The Custodian's Office,
Department of the Secretary of State of Canada,
Vancouver, British Columbia

c/o [care of] J. E. Lawlor,
Box 381,
Picture Butte, Alta. [Alberta]
Aug. 17, 1944.

File No. 3265

The Custodian's Office,
Dept. of the Secretary of State of Canada,
Vancouver, B. C.

Dear Sir:

I have received the notice for the sale of my property -- Lot 1, 6 & 7, Block A, D.L. 165, Gp. [government property] 3, District of New Westminster, C. of E.[Corner of East] 50766, 3967 Lougheed Highway, Mission City. In regard to my property being sold so cheap, I am asking you the reason why. I just don't understand this whole business.

The price barely covers the crop sold for the year 1942. It doesn't cover even one-fifth of the cost of all the buildings. The place, as you have noticed, is one of the best locality in the valley. Why, it is just like selling it for nothing. Don't you think so, too.

I demand to know the reason, why it has been sold at such a price, at once.

Yours truly,

(SIGNED) "K. SHIMODA"
Reg. No. 13251