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Description: 4 VARIOUS ITEMS INSIDE GREEN CARDBOARD BOX. .1) BOX IS RECTANGULAR GREEN CARDBOARD BOX WITH "HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY" AND HBC COAT OF ARMS ON FRONT. PRINTED IN PENCIL IN TOP LEFT CORNER IS "JOY NAKAYAMA". .2) MAPLE LEAF: 10CM X 15CM DRIED MAPLE LEAF. .3) LEAF: 6CM X 14CM GREEN AND YELLOW DRIED LEAF. .4) BOOKMARK: 16.5CM X 5.1CM PAPER BOOKMARK WITH COLOR SCENE OF BIBLE AND CANDLES AND POINSETTIA FLOWERS. CAPTION READS "MAY CHRISTMAS AND THE BEAUTY OF THAT WONDROUS SILENT NIGHT GUIDE YOUR WAY TO JOY AND HAPPINESS WITH ITS EVERLASTING LIGHT". JAPANESE CHARACTERS HAND PRINTED ON BACK. .5) BUSINESS CARD: 9.0CM X 5.4CM HEAVY PAPER CARD WITH PHOTO OF JAPANESE MAN IN CLERICAL CLOTHS. PRINTED AT BOTTOM IS "THE REVEREND GORDON GIOCHI NAKAYAMA" AND HIS COALDALE ADDRESS. PAPER IS WORN AND WRINKLED.

History: BOX AND ITS CONTENTS BELONGED TO DONOR, JOY KOGAWA, AS A YOUNG GIRL. JOY IS DAUGHTER OF REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA AND WAS BORN IN VANCOUVER. SHE AND HER FAMILY WERE TAKEN TO SLOCAN CITY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR (1942-1945). FOLLOWING THE WAR SHE AND HER FAMILY MOVED TO COALDALE WHERE HER FATHER ESTABLISHED THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION. JOY WENT ON TO BECOME AN AUTHOR AND LECTURER OF RENOWN IN CANADA. HER NOVELS INCLUDE "OBASAN" AND "THE RAIN ASCENDS". SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.