Musician hopes to salvage grandfather's legacy by turning destroyed cherry trees into instruments

An Edmonton musician is hoping to salvage his grandfather’s legacy after some of the cherry trees he donated to the city of Prince Rupert in the 1950s and 60s were destroyed by the federal government Friday.

Shotaro “Tom” Shimizu gifted several cherry trees to the city of Prince Rupert in the years following his release from an internment camp in the Second World War.

Shimizu was a Japanese immigrant to Prince Rupert who opened a hotel there in 1915, which he ran until it was

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