Probate/Estate Record of Matsushiro Akazawa

Probate/Estate Record of Matsushiro Akazawa

Description

Title Proper F0 GR2202 REEL B09035 FILE 33302
Date(s) 1945
General material designation
This file contains a textual record.
Scope and content
This is the probate record of Matsushiro Akazawa who died in Tashme, British Columbia, 1 May 1945. This file contains Akazawa’s will which declares his daughter, Sashiko Akazawa, also residing at Tashme, Executrix of his estate and sole beneficiary of his assets. The Office of the Custodian had “no objection” of Sashiko’s appointment of Executrix given that “the assets in the hands of the Custodian [had] been liquidated.”
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Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
This record was digitized in full.

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Probate/Estate Record of Matsushiro Akazawa
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