​Letter to F Matheson from Kaga Sute

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Scanned black-and-white microfilm of a typedwritten copy of a letter addressed to government representative F Matheson from Kaga Sute regarding dispossession of their property.
C/O G. Grant,
Taber, Alberta
​The Custodian Office,
Department of the Secretary of State of Canada,
Vancouver, British Columbia

COPY FOR MR.SHEARS

C/O [care of] G. Grant,
TABER Alta. [Alberta]
August 15, 1947

Mr. F. Matheson,
Office of the Custodian,
Department of the Secretary of State of Canada,
Vancouver, B.C.

Dear Sirs:

I have received a letter from you, dated August 4, 1947, and which referred to my house I left behind in Cumberland B.C at the time of my evacuation.

Enclosed with the letter was a Custodian cheque for $30.00, the amount which you state represent the value of my house when it was disposed of by the Custodian.

With regard to my house, I have never in the past asked the Custodian or any such machinery to dispose of it. The price such as $30.00 for a five room house is downright outragious at any time, more so during these times when housing shortage is so acute.

Therefore, I would like to call your attention that as far as I'm concerned, my account with you in regards to the above house is not yet closed.

Yours truly,

S. Kaga.

Original on File 5159

Sute Kaga declared a house on property owned by Canadian Collieries Dunsmuir Ltd., Cumberland, B.C. The $30.00 referred to above was the salvage value of the house paid in to this office when the buildings were razed by the land-owner.