​Letter to FG Shears from Asa Amemori

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Scanned black-and-white microfilm of a typewritten copy of a letter to Government representative FG Shears from Asa Amemori regarding dispossession of their property.
c/o L. Toth,
P.O. Box 238,
Raymond, Alberta
​Office of the Custodian,
Vancouver, British Columbia

c/o [care of] L. Toth,
P.O. [Post Office] Box 238,
Raymond, Alta.,[Alberta]
April 21, 1944.

Mr F.G. Shears,
Director,
Office of the Custodian,
Vancouver, B.C.

Dear Sir:

Re your letter file no. 5442 advising me of the sale of my property. I wish to state that the price is not only too ridiculously low, but that I refuse to sell at such. The price mentioned merely covers the cost land was first bought for; the labour in clearing that wild land, the trees planted, plants, buildings have entirely been overlooked under your price estimate.

I value the property at $4000 which is the price I could easily have sold for had I desired to do so. I do not see how the value of that same land could be estimated at the unreasonably low price you mention.

Yours truly,

Asa Amemori