BOX

Description: RECTANGULAR WOOD BOX IS FASHIONED FROM WOOD SLATS NAILED TOGETHER. SINGLE DIVIDER PANEL AT CENTRE. STAMPED ON END OF BOX IS "GROWN AND PACKED BY RIVERSIDE NURSERIES GRAND FORKS, B.C.". OPPOSITE END HAS "DELICIOUS" AND "FANCY" AND "216" STAMPED IN BLACK INK. PRINTED IN BLACK INK ON SIDE OF BOX IS "REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA COALDALE ALTA" (FADED). OTHER SIDE HAS "REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA" AND JAPANESE CHARACTERS HAND WRITTEN IN BLUE PENCIL.

History: DONOR RELATES THAT HER FATHER USED APPLE BOXES FOR STORAGE AND SHIPPING. APPLE BOX LIKELY WAS USED TO TRANSPORT DONOR'S FAMILY BELONGINGS FROM VANCOUVER TO SLOCAN CITY TO COALDALE. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVEDTO 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.