Material Type

Artifact

Date Range From

1940

Date Range To

1950

Materials

WOOD

No. Pieces

1

Height

1.3

Length

10.1

Width

3.4

Description

OBLONG LENGTH OF WOOD WITH NOSE TAPERED TO A POINT AND REAR THAT IS ROUNDED. SMALL SQUARE OF WOOD IS NAILED TO TOP. SEVERAL HOLES.

Subjects

TOY

Historical Association

LEISURE

History

TOY BOAT BELONGED TO TO DONOR AND HER BROTHER TIM AS CHILDREN. DONOR WAS CHILD OF G.G. & LOIS NAKAYAMA WHO WERE ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER. THE FAMILY WAS RELOCATED TO SLOCAN CITY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. IN 1945 THE FAMILY MOVED TO COALDALE WHERE REV. NAKAYAMA FOUNDED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION WHERE HE WAS MINISTER UNTIL 1970. THE DONOR WENT ON TO BECOME A LECTURER AND AUTHOR OF RENOWN IN CANADA AND HAS WRITTEN A NUMBER OF BOOKS INCLUDING "OBASAN" AND "THE RAIN ASCENDS". TIMOTHY WENT ON TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN MINISTER IN THE AREA OF JAPANESE MISSIONS. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.

Catalogue Number

P19970041249

Acquisition Date

1997-01

Collection

Museum

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