Shotaro Shimizu
Bird Commission case file number 1156. Custodian file number 1336. (Source: lac_rg33-69_volume_58_file_1156)
Shimizu was born on 10 November 1888. He is also named in the file as Shotaro Tom Shimizu. He was a restaurant proprieter. His family includes Kimiko Shimizu (wife; nee Kimiko Tsutsumi), Henry Akira Shimizu [also known as Henry John Akira Shimizu] (son; born 26 November 1928), Haruko Shimizu (daughter; born 9 February 1930), Yoshiko Shimizu (daughter; born 21 May 1934), Masaru Shimizu [also listed as Kaien Shimizu] (son; born 10 April 1937), Shoji Shimizu (son), and Masa Shimizu (former wife; nee Masa Miyakawa). His home address is listed as 714 West Third Avenue, Prince Rupert, BC. He was forcibly uprooted to Hastings Park, then to Rosebery, BC, then to New Denver, BC, then to Misericordia Hospital, Edmonton, AB, and then to 97th Street, Edmonton Alberta. His listed seized property includes 252-4 Sixth Avenue West, Prince Rupert, BC sold to Mrs. Lilian Annie MacLean, a housewife and ‘British subject’ originally of 306 West Fifth Avenue, Prince Rupert, BC.
Metadata
| Surname | Shimizu |
| Forename | Shotaro |
| Regularized Name | Shotaro Shimizu |
| Custodian Identification Number | 1336 |
| Nationality | Naturalized Canadian |
| Residence (before uprooting) | Prince Rupert |
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