Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

DESK LAMP

Date Range From

1960

Date Range To

1970

Materials

ALUMINUM, RUBBER, GLASS

No. Pieces

1

Height

42

Length

12.1

Width

47.4

Description

BROWN LAMP WITH WIDE RECTANGULAR SHADE, FLEXIBLE NECK AND SQUARE BASE. BLACK PLASTIC "OFF" BUTTON AND RED PLASTIC "ON" BUTTON ON FRONT TOP OF BASE. SHADE CONTAINS FLOURESCENT TUBE BULB MANUFACTURED BY "SYLVANIA". "JAPAN" IS STAMPED IN BLACK INK ON BOTTOM. STICKER ON BOTTOM LISTS LAMP AS "MODEL NS-120". HAS WHITE ELECTRICAL CORD.

Subjects

LIGHTING DEVICE

Historical Association

FURNISHINGS

History

LAMP WAS ON THE DESK IN THE OFFICE OF DONOR'S FATHER, THE REVEREND CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA. GORDON GOICHIE NAKAYAMA WAS BORN IN KURAKAWA, JAPAN, AND EMIGRATED TO CANADA IN 1919. HE BECAME A CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY IN 1920 AND BEGAN TO WORK AS A MINISTER IN THE POWELL STREET MISSION IN VANCOUVER, B.C.. IN 1926 HE MARRIED ANOTHER YOUNG JAPANESE MISSIONARY WORKING AT THE POWELL STREET MISSION, LOIS MASUI YAO. HE WAS ORDAINED A PRIEST IN THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN 1932 AND WORKED AS LEADER OF A JAPANESE MISSION IN THE VANCOUVER SUBURB OF KITSILANO. REV. NAKAYAMA AND HIS WIFE HAD TWO CHILDREN, JOY AND TIM. WITH THE BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR IN 1941 THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT FORCIBLY REMOVED THE JAPANESE POPULATION OF B.C. AND THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS MOVED TO SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF B.C.. IN 1942. REV. NAKAYAMA CONTINUED TO MINISTER TO THE JAPANESE COMMUNITIES WHICH WERE INTERNED DURING THE WAR. IN 1945 AT WAR'S END REV. NAKAYAMA MOVED HIS FAMILY TO SOUTHERN ALBERTA AND EVENTUALLY SETTLED IN COALDALE. AT COALDALE HE FOUNDED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION WHERE HE WAS RECTOR UNTIL 1970 WHEN HE RETIRED. THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE REV. NAKAYAMA TRAVELLED EXTENSIVELY AS A MISSIONARY AND SPEAKER. HE WAS AWARDED THE TITLE OF CANON OF ST. PAUL IN 1966. FOLLOWING RETIREMENT IN 1970 REV. NAKAYAMA ENDED UP IN VANCOUVER AGAIN WORKING FOR ANOTHER JAPANESE MISSION UNTIL ILL HEALTH FORCED HIM TO QUIT. G.G. NAKAYAMA DIED IN 1995. HIS SON, TIMOTHY, ALSO WENT ON TO BECOME AN ANGLICAN PRIEST. HIS DAUGHTER, JOY, WENT ON TO BECOME A LECTURER AND AUTHOR OF RENOWN IN CANADA. BEST KNOWN FOR HER NOVEL "OBASAN", JOY WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN SECURING AN APOLOGY AND COMPENSATION FROM THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT IN THE 1980S FOR THE TREATMENT OF THE JAPANESE COMMUNITY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. AS OF 2015, JOY KOGAWA DIVIDES HER TIME BETWEEN VANCOUVER AND TORONTO, CONTINUES TO WRITE, AND IS A MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA, ORDER OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, AND JAPAN'S ORDER OF THE RISING SUN. THE FOLLOWING HISTORY OF THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS PROVIDED BY REVEREND TIM NAKAYAMA IN A LETTER TO THE GALT ON 16 AUGUST, 2007. HE WROTE: “BEFORE [MY FATHER] CAME TO CANADA IN 1919, HE PROMISED HIS MOTHER, WHO LIVED IN SHIKOKI IN EHINE PREFECTURE IN THE MOUNTAINOUS AREA OF KURAKAWA-INLAND FROM OZU, THAT HE WOULD “NEVER BECOME A CHRISTIAN”. HE BELIEVED AS HIS MOTHER DID, THAT CHRISTIANITY WAS THE RELIGION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION OR OF “RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM”, WHERE EVERYONE WAS OUT FOR HIMSELF. IN 1919, HE CROSSED THE PACIFIC OCEAN AND CAME TO VANCOUVER, BEING MET BY HIS UNCLE AND HIS AUNT. THE FIRST EVENING AT THEIR HOME, HE SAW A GROUP OF PEOPLE MEETING FOR A PRAYER MEETING. THEY HAD GATHERED TOGETHER TO WELCOME HIM AND PRAY FOR HIM. HE FOUND THIS SOMEWHAT FRIGHTENING AND SHOCKING, AND HE LEFT THEIR GATHERING AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE AND RETIRED TO HIS ROOM UPSTAIRS. ONE DAY, MY FATHER WANDERED INTO ST. JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH IN DOWNTOWN E. VANCOUVER, WHICH WAS A PLACE KNOWN BY JAPANESE YOUNG MEN AS A QUIET, MEDITATIVE PLACE. HE DID NOT KNOW THAT IT WAS GOOD FRIDAY. FATHER COOPER WAS SPEAKING ABOUT JESUS. HE COULD SEE AND HEAR THAT JESUS WAS HANGING ON THE CROSS, HIS MOTHER WAS THERE ON GOLGOTHA AND JOHN, HIS DISCIPLE, WAS ALSO THERE. JESUS SAID TO HIS MOTHER, REFERRING TO JOHN, “MOTHER, BEHOLD THY SON:, AND TURNING TO JOHN, “BEHOLD THY MOTHER”. HE LEARNED THAT JESUS, IN SPITE OF HIS OWN SUFFERING ON THE CROSS, WAS NOT CONCERNED ABOUT HIMSELF, BUT WAS CONCERNED FOR OTHERS. WHAT MY FATHER HEARD THAT DAY WAS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM WHAT HE HAD BEEN TAUGHT IN JAPAN ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. HE TOLD HIS UNCLE, A METHODIST MINISTER WHAT HE HAD HEARD AND HOW HIS MIND WAS NOW CHANGED - HE WAS CONVERTED, COMING TO BELIEVE - SO HE WAS BAPTIZED. GO-BETWEENS INTRODUCED HIM TO LOIS MASUI YAO, A KINDERGARTEN TEACHER WHO HAD COME FROM JAPAN TO THE ANGLICAN MISSION IN KITSILANO. SHE HAD BEEN RAISED AS AN ANGLICAN CHRISTIAN IN THE NIPPON SEO KO KAI, AND HE WAS A NEW CHRISTIAN. THEY ATTENDED EACH OTHER’S CHURCH ON ALTERNATING SUNDAYS, BUT SHE WOULD GO EVERY SUNDAY TO THE EARLY COMMUNION SERVICE. HE BEGAN TO WONDER WHY SHE WOULD DO THAT. HE WAS MOVED BY HER EXAMPLE, AND JOINED THE ANGLICAN CHURCH. SHORTLY AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE, THEY MADE A TRIP TOGETHER TO JAPAN. THEY VISITED HIS MOTHER IN SHIKOKO. HE TOLD HIS MOTHER WHY HE HAD BECOME A CHRISTIAN. WHEN SHE HEARD HIS WITNESS, SHE ALSO BELIEVED AND WAS HERSELF CONVERTED. WHEN THEY RETURNED TO CANADA, HE FELT THE CALL OF GOD TO BE ORDAINED TO THE SACRED MINISTRY OF THE CHURCH. HE BEGAN HIS STUDIES AT THE ANGLICAN THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE OF B.C. AND WAS APPOINTED AS A LAY READER AT THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION. WHILE HE WAS A THEOLOGICAL STUDENT, I WAS BORN ON OCTOBER 5, 1931. HE WAS ORDAINED DEACON AND THEN PRIEST, AND WAS APPOINTED PRIEST IN CHARGE, AT CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION. THE CONGREGATION BUILT A NEW CHURCH BUILDING, COMPLETING THE PROJECT WITHOUT RECEIVING ANY OUTSIDE AID. THE JAPANESE CANADIAN COMMUNITY ALONG THE WEST COAST WAS REMOVED TO INTERNMENT “CAMPS” DURING WORLD WAR II IN 1942. WHILE WE JAPANESE MEMBERS WERE “DISPLACED PERSONS” IN OUR OWN COUNTRY, THE DIOCESE OF NEW WESTMINSTER, WITHOUT OUR KNOWLEDGE, “RELINQUISHED” OUR TWO PLACES OF WORSHIP, HOLY CROSS MISSION AND CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION. THE GOVERNMENT AUCTIONED OFF ALL THEIR PROPERTY, BUSINESSES, REAL ESTATE AND CHATTELS. WHEN THE WAR ENDED 1/6 OF THE JAPANESE CANADIAN POPULATION WAS REPATRIATED BACK TO JAPAN. THE PEOPLE WHO WERE STILL IN CANADA WERE FURTHER DISRUPTED AS THE GOVERNMENT TOOK STEPS TO CLOSE DOWN THE CAMPS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. THIS WAS AFTER AUGUST 15, 1945. OUR FAMILY, FATHER, MOTHER, MYSELF AND MY SISTER, LEFT SLOCAN CITY AND WE ARRIVED IN COALDALE, ALBERTA ON AUGUST 31, 1945. WE HAD BEEN SENT “EAST OF THE ROCKIES” TO THE FLAT, TREELESS PRAIRIES OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA, TO THE SUGAR BEET GROWING AREA. WHEN WE ARRIVED IN COALDALE ON AUGUST 31, 1945, WE FIRST STAYED IN RENTED ROOMS ABOVE THE VOTH GENERAL STORE ON HIGHWAY 3. THE PROPERTY WE EVENTUALLY SETTLED IN, IN COALDALE, WAS A SWAMP DURING WET PERIODS AND WAS UNINHABITABLE LAND A ONE-ROOM HOUSE WAS MOVED ON TO THE PROPERTY AND SOME EARTH WAS PILED UP ALONG THE SIDES OF THE HOUSE TO MAKE IT MORE WEATHERPROOF AND SECURE. THE PARISH HALL WAS BUILT AND ATTACHED TO THAT HOUSE. THE PARISH HALL HAD BEEN A KINDERGARTEN BUILDING IN BAYFORM, SLOCAN CITY. AFTER THE WAR, IT WAS DISMANTLED, CUT INTO SECTIONS, AND SHIPPED BY FLAT CAR TO COALDALE. HERE, VOLUNTEERS REASSEMBLED IT, AND IT BECAME THE PARISH HALL OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH MISSION OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA. THE JAPANESE MISSION WAS INTEGRATED, BY THE LOCAL OCCIDENTAL ANGLICANS AND OTHERS WHO CAME AND JOINED WHAT HAD BEEN A JAPANESE CONGREGATION. AN A-FRAME BUILDING WAS CONSTRUCTED AND THE RT. REV. GEORGE REGINALD CALVERT, BISHOP OF CALGARY, DEDICATED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION. ONCE AGAIN, THE NAMES OF THE TWO CHURCHES THAT HAD DISAPPEARED WHEN THE DIOCESE OF WESTMINSTER RELINQUISHED THE TWO VANCOUVER JAPANESE ANGLICAN MISSION-WHILE WE HAD BEEN SENT TO “THE CAMPS”, CAME BACK INTO BEING. THESE TWO WERE NOW THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE, ALBERTA (DIOCESE OF CALGARY) AND HOLY CROSS CHURCH, VANCOUVER, B.C. (DIOCESE OF WESTMINSTER) WHEN I GRADUATED FROM COALDALE HIGH SCHOOL IN 1950, THE LAW HAD BEEN CHANGED IN 1949, WHICH ALLOWED ME TO RETURN TO VANCOUVER AND THE WEST COAST OF CANADA TO ATTEND THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. MY FATHER WOULD WAKE UP DAILY, BEFORE DAWN (AROUND 4 A.M.) AND WRITE LETTERS. HE WOULD SAY HIS PRAYERS, HAVE BREAKFAST, AND DURING THE 90-DAY GROWING SEASON, DO SOME GARDENING. HE WOULD THEN GO TO THE POST OFFICE TO MAIL THE LETTERS HE HAD WRITTEN AND BRING HOME THE MAIL FROM OUR POST OFFICE BOX, WHICH WAS #461. MY FATHER ALSO WROTE BOOKS IN JAPANESE AND HAD THEM PUBLISHED. MANY OF THE BOOKS WERE DESCRIPTIONS OF HIS TRAVELS. DURING HIS LIFETIME, HE TRAVELED ALL ACROSS CANADA AND THE USA, WHEREVER THE JAPANESE HAD GONE. HE TRAVELED TO SOUTH AMERICA WHERE THE JAPANESE HAD SETTLED, PARTICULARLY IN BRAZIL, PARAGUAY AND URAGUAY. HE WENT TO AFRICA AND EUROPE AND MADE SEVERAL TRIPS TO JAPAN AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR. MY FATHER PUBLISHED SEVERAL BOOKS AND DISTRIBUTED MOST OF THEM BY MAIL TO THOSE HE MET ON HIS TRAVELS. SOME OF HIS WERE COMPOSED OF SERMONS AND MEDITATIONS. OTHERS WERE BOOKS THAT DEVELOPED OUT OF THEOLOGICAL THEMES AND WERE DISTRIBUTED BY PUBLISHERS IN JAPAN. ONE WAS DEVELOPED DURING HIS THEOLOGICAL STUDIES (HE WAS AT THE ANGLICAN THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE OF B.C. (ATC) ADJACENT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF B.C. IN STUDYING ANGLICAN LITURGICS HE DISCOVERED THAT THERE WAS NO BOOK IN JAPANESE ON THE SUBJECT. SO HE WROTE A BOOK IN JAPANESE ON THE SUBJECT, BASED ON A BOOK BY EVAN DANIEL. ANOTHER BOOK ON A TIMELY SUBJECT THAT HAD NOT BEEN WRITTEN IN JAPANESE WAS ABOUT CHRISTIAN SECTS. HE WROTE A BOOK, BASED ON “HERESIES EXPOSED”. CHRISTIAN LITERATURE PUBLISHED IN JAPANESE WAS RELATIVELY RARE. SO HIS BOOKS WERE SOUGHT AFTER, AND HIS MONTHLY CHURCH PUBLICATION (MIMEOGRAPHED) THROUGH MOST OF HIS YEARS OF PASTORAL MINISTRY, ESPECIALLY DURING WARTIME WHILE IN ‘CAMP’, AND IN THE POST WAR YEARS, WERE READ BY MANY, PARTICULARLY WHEN WRITTEN/PUBLISHED MATERIALS WERE SCARCE OR NON-EXISTENT.. THESE WERE DISTRIBUTED BY HAND (IN THE CAMPS), AND BY MAIL ALL OVER THE WORLD TO; THE JAPANESE OF THE DIASPORA." 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 HER FAMILY’S ASSOCIATION WITH THE OBJECTS COMPRISING THIS DONATION, KOGAWA SAID: “I DID, AS A CHILD, ALWAYS EXPERIENCE A SENSE OF PRIVILEGE, BECAUSE MY FATHER WAS A CLERGYMAN, AND WE HAD MORE THINGS THAN OTHER PEOPLE DID. WE LIVED IN SLOCAN, WITH THE LOG HOUSE, BY OURSELVES, WHEREAS OTHER PEOPLE WERE CROWDED TOGETHER IN MUCH MORE CRAMPED CONDITIONS… MY FATHER HAD ARRANGED AT SOME POINT TO HAVE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WERE IN OUR HOUSE IN MARPOLE [VANCOUVER] SENT TO HIM [IN SLOCAN]… I KNOW OTHER PEOPLE DID NOT HAVE [THAT OPPORTUNITY]… SO THERE WE WERE IN OUR PRIVILEGED LITTLE LOG HOUSE WITH A KITCHEN, A LIVING ROOM, A BEDROOM WHERE MY DAD SLEPT AND MY MOM AND MY BROTHER AND I SLEPT IN THIS LITTLE CLOSET BESIDE THE KITCHEN AND IT HAD BUNK BEDS… SO, WERE WE PRIVILEGED? DID WE HAVE MORE? IT IS TRUE THAT WE DID. AND THAT WHEN WE MOVED FROM SLOCAN TO COALDALE, EVERYTHING CAME WITH US. WE HAD LOST SO MUCH, THAT NOTHING WAS GOING TO BE LOST AGAIN, AND THAT IS WHY I THINK [MY PARENTS] BECAME COLLECTORS, AND OUR LITTLE HOUSE IN COALDALE, WHICH WAS ATTACHED TO THE CHURCH, WAS SO CLUTTERED AND SO FILLED WITH THINGS THAT THEY COULD NOT LET GO OF… THEY BECAME HOARDERS OF THEIR PAST.” SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR HARDCOPIES OF FULL JOY KOGAWA INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT AND OF REV. TIM NAKAYAMA'S LETTER, AND FURTHER RESEARCH MATERIAL.

Catalogue Number

P19970041001

Acquisition Date

1997-01

Collection

Museum

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