​Letter to the Department of the Secretary of State from Chiaki Katsuno

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Scanned black-and-white microfilm of a typewritten copy of a letter addressed to the government from Chiaki Katsuno regarding dispossession of their property.
Box 874,
Hope, British Columbia
​Department of the Secretary of State,
Office of the Custodian,
506 Royal Bank Building,
Vancouver, British Columbia

COPY FOR MR. SHEARS' COMPLAINT FILE

Box 874,
Hope, B.C.

Dec. 6, 1946

Dept of the Sec. of State,
Office of the Custodian
506 Royal Bank Building,
Vancouver, B.C.

Dear Sirs:

Re: File No. 8667

On looking through former correspondence from your office relating to matters of my property and having them fully explained to me, I would like to protest the sale.

I feel that the property should not have been sold as I had leased it prior to my departure. Furthermore the Selling Price was in no way the real value of the property. I purchased the land for Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1500.00) and since then I had cleared over seven acres, built a house valuing Sixteen Hundred Dollars $1500.00) and was only three years old at the time of sale. I also planted many fruit trees, raspberries, strawberries, and black currants. I built a barn on the property too.

Therefore, I do not consider the receipt of the cheque as settlement of my property vested in your care.

Yours truly,

"Chiaki Katsuno"
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Chiaki KATSUNO