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Description: FRONT AND BACK COVER ARE IDENTICAL. COVER IS YELLOW AND FEATURES A MAN IN GLASSES AND A FIREMAN'S HAT. THE HAT READS "CHIEF". COVER ALSO READS "FIRE CHIEF ED. WYNN AND HIS OLD FIRE HORSE ED. WYNN'S OWN BOOK FOR BOYS AND GIRLS". SPINE IS MADE OF BROWN TAPE. BOOK IS NUMBERED TO PAGE 122. INSIDE FRONT COVER IS A PIECE OF BROWN TAPE HOLDING A SLIP OF PAPER IN THAT HAS NAME OF BOOK AND "DANIEL TOQUIRE [?] JUNE 9 JUNE 8". FIRST PAGE OF BOOK READS "THIS BOOK BELONGS TO TIMOTHY NAKAYAMA SLOCAN CITY B.C.".

History: BOOKS WERE BROUGHT BY DONOR'S PARENTS FROM VANCOUVER TO SLOCAN CITY IN 1942. USED BY DONOR AND HER SIBLINGS. DONOR'S BROTHER CREATED A LITTLE LIBRARY FOR FRIENDS, AS THERE WAS NO LIBRARY IN SLOCAN. DONOR HAD BOOKS ON A BOOKSHELF BEFORE DONATION. THE FOLLOWING IS A QUOTE FROM DONOR'S BROTHER TIM : "I THINK OUR PARENTS ASKED US WHAT WE WANTED TO TAKE WITH US. JOY AND I MUST HAVE CHOSEN THOSE PARTICULAR BOOKS. SUCH MATERIALS WERE SCARCE DURING OUR "CAMP" LIFE, AND IN THE IMMEDIATE POST-WAR YEARS WE SPENT IN COALDALE. I REMEMBER THE 3 TITLES YOU MENTION. OUR FATHER, THE REV. GORDON GOICHI NAKAYAMA, MUST HAVE PICKED UP THE USA BOOK IN ONE OF HIS TRAVELS AND INSCRIBED HIS NAME IN IT. THE OTHER BOOKS, ONE WITH JOY'S NAME, AND THE OTHER WITH MINE, WERE OUR TREASURES THAT WE LEAFED THROUGH REPEATEDLY AND ENJOYED IN THE LOG CABIN WHERE WE LIVED IN SLOCAN CITY." THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER AND WERE INTERNED IN SLOCAN CITY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. FOLLOWING THE WAR THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY MOVED TO COALDALE, ALBERTA. AT COALDALE DONOR'S FATHER, REVEREND NAKAYAMA, FOUNDED THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION WHERE HE WAS RECTOR FROM 1945 TO 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.