BOOK

Description: FRONT COVER (READ FROM RIGHT TO LEFT) HAS BLUE AND RED BACKGROUND WITH SKETCH OF A WOMAN AND A YOUNG GIRL STANDING BENEATH A PALM TREE. A COLUMN OF RED JAPANESE CHARACTERS IS DOWN LEFT SIDE AND "NEW STYLE 1933" IS REPEATED ACROSS BOTTOM EDGE. BOOK IS MADE UP OF SOME COLOUR PICTURES OF PATTERNS AND MOSTLY BLACK AND WHITE INSTRUCTIONS AND PICTURES.

History: BOOK LIKELY BELONGED TO DONOR AS A YOUNG GIRL WHEN SHE BEGAN TO SEW. DONOR RELATES THAT SHE SEWED MORE THAN HER MOTHER AND MADE A NUMBER OF GARMENTS FOR HERSELF. 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 INV ANCOUVER, 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.