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Japanese Canadians of Saltspring

Japanese Canadian Properties Vested
with the Custodian of Enemy Property in 1942

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NO. OWNER LEGAL DESCRPTION SCHOOL 1941 TAX LIST 1945 AREA IN ACRES HAVE PLAN REAL PROPERTY SUMMARY FARM APPRAISAL REPORT FARM APPRAISED SOLD TO PURCHASE PRICE NET TO OWNER REMARKS
1 Masakichi Inouye Lot 3, Sec.2, Range 2E North SSI, Cowichan Dist. Plan 2495     9.74 Yes Yes     Joseph M. Ford
March, 1945		 $1,550.00 debit of $4.66 Property was being purchased on agreement for sale of $1,300.00, Balance $1,200.00 remaining.  No information on any down payment.
Included - "4 room house in fair condition".
2 Nakazo Ito Lot 1, Sec. 4, Range 2E North SSI, Cowichan Dist. Plan 3769. Yes Yes 5 Yes Yes Yes $900.00 VLA*, 1944 $969.00 $968.10 Included 5 room house, cabin and 7 farm buildings, 3 acres in berries and asparagus.
3 Torazo Iwasaki [District] Lots 3 & 4, North SSI, Cowichan Dist., Incl. Parcel "A", except that part of 4 lying S of S boundary of 3 and its production east to intersection with "A".   3 lots 598.85 or more Yes Yes   $5,000.00 S.S. Lands Ltd.
March, 1945		 $5,250.00 $4,996.22 S.S.Lands received $262.50 commission. We have a 1949  letter from H.M. Hall to a Victoria law firm estimating value as $12,000.00 "at date of sale".  He also estimated that 3,000,000 B.F. of timber remained in 1944/45.  Keith Wilson stated in August, 1944 "The property has in general been logged off".  S.S. Lands only had two other, lower offers, in spite of Wilson spending $4.00 of Iwasaki's for advertising.
4 Masukichi Mikado Amended Parcel "G" of Sec. 4, Range 3E, North SSI Cowichan Dist. Yes Yes 5.76   Yes Yes $1,500.00 VLA, 1944 $1,544.00 $1,543.15 good 5-room bungalow and outhouse, about 1/2 acre in berries and asparagus.
5 Katsuyori Murakami Lot 1, Sec. 3 Range 2E, Plan 3912, and part of east 1/2 of Sec. 3, Range 2E, Plan 246R, North SSI Cowichan Dist.     17.04 Lot 1 Only Yes Yes $1,300.00 VLA, 1944 $1,284.00 $1,277.35 A 4-room house and about 7 acres of good garden land planted to asparagus, strawberry, loganberry and 6 chicken houses - (50 x 20') brooder and incubator houses.
6 Masayoshi Murakami Lot 2, Sec. 2, Range 1E, North SSI, Cowichan Dist. Plan 4329.     65.89 Yes Yes     Fred Orr, 1945 $300.00 $271.05 "Wild land without fences or other improvements" - non-revenue producing.
7 Morihei Murakami Part of E 1/2 of W 1/2 of Sec. 4, Range 2E, North SSI Cowichan Dist. lying to S of public road, except east 25 ft. thereof.     21   Yes Yes Yes VLA $2,342.00 $2,340.50 Includes dwelling, 15,900 square feet of garden, chicken house and outhouse.
8 Tsunetaro Murakami Lot C of Sec. 4 and 5, Range 2E, North SSI Cowichan Dist., Plan 2183. 25 ac. and Lot 2 of Sec. 4, North SSI, Cowichan Dist. Plan 3805, 1.77 ac. Both lots Both lots 26.8 Lot C Yes Yes $1,000.00 Lot C
$150.00 Lot 2		 VLA $988.00 Lot C
$174.00 Lot 2		 Unknown Lot C includes home "in very good condition", cabin, a barn and two sheds.
9 Kumanosuke Okano W 1/2 of Sec.3, Range 2E, (except E 25') and the N. 20' of Sec. 3, Range 1E lying east of public road, Plan 2143. Yes Yes about 49.32   Yes Yes   VLA, 1944 $2,926.00 $2,925.70 Includes owner's house 7 green houses (22,800 sq. ft.) numerous chicken and other buildings, besides dwellings of 2 friends ...... that of Keirchiro Hirono was of recent construction and said to have cost owner $2,000.00, at date of evacuation, 3 acres strawberries and 1-1/4 acres asparagus and about 10,000 tomato plants in garden.
10 Kumanosuke Okano Sec. 1, Range 1E, North SSI, Cowichan Dist. Yes Yes 100 mentioned in "general summary"   Yes   VLA, 1944 $245.00 $242.00 "Steep wild  land".
11 Sueyuki Okano Part of W 1/2 of Sec.2, Range 2E, North SSI, Cowichan Dist., lying to North of Rainbow Road, Plan DD10980.S.   Yes 38.7   Yes Yes $200.00 VLA, 1944 $189.00 $186.00 Vacant Land
12 Miles Acheson Pt. Sec. 10, R E, Plan 438-R and parcel A, Sec. 10, R2E, NSSI, Cowichan Dist.     105.88               As residents of China during the war, the Achesons were also deemed "technical" alien-enemies. Unlike property owners of Japanese descent, the Achesons had their property returned to them after the war.
  * VLA  =   Land purchased by Director, Soldier Settlement and Veterans' Land Act to be sold to returning veterans.                
  PLAN  =   Subdivision plan on file at B.C. Land Registry                    
  Research by James Thomas with assistance from Dan Arnold, Joni Devlin, and Caffyn Kelley - March 2006. Revisions by Brian Smallshaw.