Probate/Estate Record of Kichisuke Matsumura

Probate/Estate Record of Kichisuke Matsumura

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Title Proper F0 GR2202 REEL B09039 FILE 33917
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1945
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This is the probate record of Kichisuke Matsumura, who died in Portage La Prairie on 21 December 1944. According to his probate record, he had an abode at Shreiber, Ontario, and a domicile in Port Hammond, BC. His son, Masaharu Matsumura, altered his affidavit with a handwritten note that his father was a “subject of the Japanese Empire.” Masaharu renounced his right to administer his father’s estate.
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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 Kichisuke Matsumura
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