CAN, FOOD STORAGE

Description: RECTANGULAR STEEL CAN WITH STEEL LID. LID HAS "H&P" STAMPED INTO IT. BODY AND LID ARE PAINTED WITH BEIGE PAINT WHICH IS FLAKING VERY BADLY.

History: STORAGE CAN WAS A HOUSEHOLD ITEM USED BY THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WHILE THEY LIVED IN COALDALE. DONOR RELATES THAT IT WAS USED TO STORE RICE. HER FATHER, REV. NAKAYAMA WAS FROM VANCOUVER AND MOVED HIS FAMILY TO COALDALE IN 1945 AFTER RELOCATION IN 1942 TO SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. AT COALDALE HE FOUNDED THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION WHERE HE WAS RECTOR FROM 1945 TO 1970. 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 THIS ARTIFACT, KOGAWA SAID: “THERE WAS RICE KEPT IN [THIS]… I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE IT WAS IN COALDALE. WE HAD THE KITCHEN AND THEN THERE WAS THIS PANTRY AND IT SAT ON THE SIDE OF THE PANTRY… I WOULD OFTEN GO GET THE RICE OUT OF THIS THING [AND] PUT IT IN THE POT…” SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.