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Dear Sir: We thank you very much for your kindness during our stay for over twenty years. We were evacuated to interior camp in Slocan. We were in Slocan for four years. In 1945 we were to have a choice of going east of rockies or repatriating to Japan. They said we are not allowed to return to the Coast. So we thought if we aren’t allowed to return to our place, and we were too old to go east of the rockies, the only way was to repatirate [sic] to Japan. After living in Burquitlam for over twenty years and leaving our property after clearing the land and buildings, and also many kinds of fruit trees, we were very disheartened. As you know, everybody used to say, what a beautiful farm you have.(From a letter by Choju Matsushita to the Corporation of the District of Coquitlam)