Bundle 353 Part 4: Royston Lumber Company Limited - Custodian Reports. 1942-1948.

Bundle 353 Part 4: Royston Lumber Company Limited - Custodian Reports. 1942-1948.

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Title Proper RG117 C-4 Volume 0267 Bundle 353-04
Date(s) 1942
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Scope and content
This file includes information pertaining to the "voluntary liquidation" of Royston Lumber Company Limited. Correspondence, primarily between the Custodian and P.S. Ross & Sons are included which describe the "winding up" and disposal of the company. Part one of the file includes the following: the transference of company title and/or shares from persons of Japanese ancestry (Estate of K. Kaminishi, M. Iwasa, G.K. Uchiyama, Kinosuke Minato, Keiji Minato, S. Tomihiro) to the Custodian is also included. The file also contains valuations of Royston Lumber’s property (including timber, buildings, equipment, etc.), information on advertising its sale, a “Report on Investigation” dated October 23, 1942 by P.S. Ross & Sons [the second half is found in RG117-0-1-3-11], and documents pertaining to the company’s Bird Commission claim. And part two of the file includes a series of reports by P.S. Ross & Sons: a "Report on Investigation" from October 1942 [the first half is found in RG117-0-1-3-10], a "Report on Tenders" from January 1943, two "Report[s] on Liquidation" from February 1944 and November 1945, and a "Report on Winding-up" from July 1948. Offers to purchase the company from Arthur Stekl and the H.R. MacMillan Export Co. are also found within this file.
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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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Bundle 353 Part 4: Royston Lumber Company Limited - Custodian Reports. 1942-1948.
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