​Letter to the Department of the Secretary of State from Fuji and Akira Iwasaki

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Scanned black-and-white microfilm of a typewritten copy of a letter addressed to the government from Fuji and Arika Iwasaki regarding dispossession of their property. Includes handwritten annotations.
P.O. Box 443,
New Denver, British Columbia
​Department of the Secretary of State,
Office of the Custodian,
506 Royal Bank Building,
Vancouver, British Columbia

COPY

For Mr. Shears [handwritten]

P.O. [post office] Box 443,
New Denver, B.C.
July 12, 1947

Department of the Secretary of State,
Office of the Custodian,
506 Royal Bank Building,
Vancouver, B.C.

Dear Sir:-

Enclosed you will find the cheque for part of the proceeds for disposition of our real estate and chattels which you forwarded us on June 27th.

Pending investigation and possible proceedings against the government in their arbitrary action concerning our possessions, our lawyer has advised us not to accept or retain any monetary return till after the matter had been disposed off.

Although you advise us that the property was sold in excess of the assessed value, I think, that a glance in the daily paper will show you, that a house of that type in a like location, can not be had for less than $4500 at present or even in the near future.

As we have never agreed to the sale then or now we wish to state our protest against the government, especially as a British Subject and a Canadian citizen. We wish to take exception in being grouped together as Enemy Alien.

I remain,

Yours truly,

Fuji Iwasaki 02408
Akira Iwasaki 02526

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