PLAQUE, RELIGIOUS
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- Other Name
- ALTAR CROSS
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Materials
- BRASS
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041323
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- ALTAR CROSS
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- BRASS
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 22.5
- Length
- 9.5
- Width
- 8.2
- Description
- PLAIN BRASS CROSS FIXED IN HEXAGONAL BRASS BASE. BRASS EMBLEM AT CENTER OF CROSS HAS "IHS" IN RELIEF. "$11.40" IS HAND PRINTED IN GREEN INK ON BOTTOM.
- Subjects
- CEREMONIAL ARTIFACT
- Historical Association
- RELIGION
- History
- ALTAR CROSS WAS USED ON THE ALTAR OF THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE, ALBERTA, LIKELY FROM THE 1950'S OR 1960'S. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WERE ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE RELOCATED TO SLOCAN CITY(1942) BY THE CANADIAN GOV'T. DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041323
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum