BOOKCASE

Description: RECTANGULAR DARK FINISH BOOKSHELF HAS SLAT BACKING, SINGLE HORIZONTAL DIVING SHELF THROUGH MIDDLE AND SIX COMPARTMENTS AT BOTTOM LEFT CORNER. BOOK SHELF HAS SEVERAL WHITE PAINT STAINS. JOINT OF TOP RIGHT COMPARTMENTS HAS MULTIPLE PIN HOLES AND A DEEP DUG OUT HOLE. BACK OF SHELF HAS A NUMBER OF SHELVES.

History: BOOK SHELF SAT ON DESK WHICH BELONGED TO DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA. DONOR RELATES THAT THE SHELF WAS USUALLY PACKED WITH BOOKS AND PAPERS. 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. 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: “[THIS] SAT AT THE BACK OF [MY FATHER’S] DESK… IT WAS LINED WITH HIS OLD DIARIES, AND THE CUBICLES WERE FILLED WITH LETTERS AND ENVELOPES… I DON’T KNOW IF HE HAD IT MADE FOR HIM, OR IF HE PICKED IT UP SOMEWHERE BUT IT FIT RIGHT ON THE DESK… I FELT SORRY FOR HIM, THAT HE DIDN’T GET THE LARGE ROLLTOP DESK BACK THAT HE HAD IN VANCOUVER [PRIOR TO FORCED RELOCATION TO SLOCAN].” SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.