COMFORTER
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- COTTON, DOWN
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041835
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- COTTON, DOWN
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 6
- Length
- 152.5
- Width
- 152.5
- Description
- SQUARE DOWN FILLED COMFORTER. BACKING IS NAVY BLUE WITH WHITE GRID PATTERN ON IT. COVER HAS BLUE PIN STRIPED BORDER WITH INTERIOR THAT IS ALTERNATING PANEL OF WHITE WITH PINK FLOWERS AND YELLOW WITH PINK FLOWERS. SEVERAL SMALL BROWN STAINS.
- Subjects
- BEDDING
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- DONOR RELATES THAT THE COMFORTER WAS MADE FOR THE FAMILY BY THE MENNONITE COMMUNITY IN COALDALE. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THED ONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON 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
- P19970041835
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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