​Letter to George Peters from Aya and Sentaro Suzuki

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Scanned black-and-white microfilm of a typewritten copy of a letter addressed to the government representative George Peters from Aya and Sentaro Suzuki regarding dispossession of their property.
Sender's Address
Slocan City, British Columbia
Recipient Address
​Administration Department
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September 23, 1944.

Mr. George Peters,
Administration Department.

Dear Sir:

Received your letter of the 18th instant. File No. 9957.

That property is one place I do not want to see sold as most of us were born there and the fruit trees Mother went to a lot of hardship in getting them and planting them and seeing them grow and the house itself though old is a symbol to us and to the old Parents. Also we have a family plot in Vancouver, isn't that enough to assure you that our hopes are to grow with Canada and die on her soil? "Be there a man whose soul so dead who never to himself hath this is my own my native Land". Mother's heart & soul is in to get back to that house yet I am trying to wean her away from the re-location centre to go east for awhile. Yet you still insist it is Ottawa's Orders and take a dictatorial hand and not a democratic way. Please do not try us any further.

Re: Titles - I am sorry to inform you I have not got them as we obeyed your orders implicitly. You know where they are more than we as we heard that you took them all.

So I am sorry I cannot help you, but I felt to be polite I must answer you.

I hear the Custodian has taken our piano. I hope you get a good price so that I could get another where-ever I go.

So I can't be more helpful, but I would like to know where it is too - please inform me.

I am

Yours truly,

for "Aya Suzuki" #08121

For Dad "Sentaro Suzuki" #08209.