Shichitaro Odagaki
Bird Commission case file number 721. Custodian file number 1634. (Source: lac_rg33-69_volume_35_file_0721)
He was born on 17 May 1898. He was a millhand employed by Alberni-Pacific Lumber Company. His family includes Miye Odagaki (mother; deceased at time of file), Manjiro Odagaki (father; deceased at time of file), Haruko Odagaki (wife; nee Haru Teramura), Yoshimi Odagaki (daughter; born on 01 January 1933), Shinji Odagaki (son; born on 16 December 1930), Miyoko Odagaki (daughter; born in 1928), and Torao Odagaki (son; born on 24 August 1926). He lived in Port Alberni, BC and was forcibly uprooted to Slocan, BC and Taber, AB. His listed seized property includes two lots, a house with a Japanese bath, and a chicken house at Bruce Street and First Avenue, Port Alberni, BC; household belongings; a sewing machine; garden tools; carpenter’s tools; pipe fitter’s tools; a “wet Japanese kitchen steaming box”; a “Japanese bamboo fencing sword”; 2000 tulip bulbs; 20 “Japanese records” [possibly gramophone records]; stoves; “two thousand board feet of lumber”; and 2 rolls of “heavy wallpaper”.
Metadata
| Surname | Odagaki |
| Forename | Shichitaro |
| Regularized Name | Shichitaro Odagaki |
| Custodian Identification Number | 1634 |
| Nationality | Japanese national |
| Residence (after uprooting) | Slocan, BC |
| Residence (after uprooting) | Taber, AB |
| Residence (before uprooting) | Port Alberni |
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