Material Type

Artifact

Date Range From

1950

Date Range To

1960

Materials

PLASTIC

No. Pieces

1

Height

0.1

Length

35.6

Width

22.9

Description

RECTANGULAR GREY PLASTIC COVERED BOARD WITH WHITE GRID PATTERN ON SURFACE. BOARD IS STAINED WITH BLUE INK. BACK OF BOARD IS COVERED WITH GREEN LEATHERETTE. CORNERS AND EDGES ARE WORN.

Subjects

DRAFTING T&E

PRINTING T&E

Historical Association

TRADES

History

DRAWING BOARD WAS USED BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, TO WRITE HANDWRITTEN TEXTS FOR NEWSLETTERS HE PUBLISHED FOR THE CHURCH. NAKAYAMA DESIGNED AND PUBLISHED TWO JAPANESE CANADIAN PAPERS, "THE CANADIAN NEWS" AND "CHURCH NEWS". HE BEGAN THE PAPERS AT SLOCAN AND DONOR RELATES THERE WERE HUGE MAILING LISTS TO JAPANESE ALL ACROSS CANADA. REV. NAKAYAMA AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO COALDALE IN 1945 AFTER BEING RELOCATED FROM VANCOUVER IN 1942 TO SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF B.C. AT COALDALE HE FOUNDED THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION WHERE HE WAS RECTOR FROM 1945 TO 1970. FROM AUGUST 29 TO 31, 2011 COLLECTIONS TECHNICIAN KEVIN MACLEAN INTERVIEWED THE DONOR, JOY KOGAWA, ABOUT HER MEMORIES ASSOCIATED WITH SPECIFIC OBJECTS THAT SHE DONATED IN 1997. OF THIS ARTIFACT, KOGAWA SAID: “[MY FATHER] WAS A PUBLISHER AND A WRITER, AND THIS IS THE WAY HE DID IT… HE WAS A BORN COMMUNICATOR… BECAUSE HE WAS A CONNECTOR OF PEOPLE… [IN] SLOCAN, WHEN THERE WERE NO OTHER PUBLICATIONS, WE DID THE CHURCH NEWS. THAT WAS A LOT OF WORK, PRINTING THEM OUT… THEN GETTING ALL THE ADDRESSES, TYPING THEM OUT ON SHEETS OF PAPER… THEN MAKING GLUE OUT OF RICE OR FLOUR AND PASTING THEM ON THE BACK AND LETTING THEM DRY… THEN CUTTING THEM ALL OUT, FOLDING THESE THINGS ALL UP, STAPLING THEM TOGETHER, AND GETTING A SPONGE WITH WATER ON IT AND TAKING ALL THESE DRIED BITS OF ADDRESSES AND STICKING THEM ON THERE… THEN GETTING THE STAMPS, PUTTING THEM ALL ON, THEN BUNDLING THEM ALL UP ACCORDING TO TERRITORY [BECAUSE] PEOPLE WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE COUNTRY… THEN BINDING THEM ALL UP AND PUTTING THEM ON TIM’S BIKE… THEN GO BACK AND FORTH TO THE POST OFFICE… THIS WAS PART OF OUR WORK, AND OUR LIFE WAS THAT WE DID THIS… [MY FATHER] KEPT UP [PUBLISHING] UNTIL THE END… THE KIND OF PAPER THAT WAS NEEDED FOR THIS MACHINE WAS NO LONGER BEING MADE, SO HE ASKED ME WHETHER MAYBE WE SHOULD BUY A COPYING MACHINE. AND WHAT I WAS THINKING AT THAT TIME WAS THAT DAD SHOULD JUST CONTINUE DOING WHAT HE’S BEEN USED TO DOING, INSTEAD OF ADAPTING TO SOMETHING AT HIS OLD AGE. HE WAS OVER 90 THEN. SO I SAID, ‘LET’S JUST KEEP ON WITH WHAT WE ARE DOING.’ WITHOUT REALIZING THAT HIS REASON FOR ASKING WAS BECAUSE HE NO LONGER COULD GET [THE PAPER].” SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.

Catalogue Number

P19970041830

Acquisition Date

1997-01

Collection

Museum

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