BLANKET
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- COTTON, WOOL
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041836
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- COTTON, WOOL
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 1.5
- Length
- 205
- Width
- 162.5
- Description
- RECTANGULAR BLANKET HAS REDDISH BROWN LINEN BACKING, BORDER OF SAME MATERIAL ON TOP WITH TWENTY SQUARE PANELS, EACH MADE FROM SCRAPS OF COLOURFUL MATERIAL SEWN DIAGONALLY. ONE PANEL IS TORN.
- Subjects
- BEDDING
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- DONOR RELATES THAT THE BLANKET 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. THE DONOR'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
- P19970041836
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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