Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

REDRESS FOR JAPANESE CANADIANS BUTTON

Date Range From

1980

Date Range To

1990

Materials

STEEL, PLASTIC, PAPER

No. Pieces

1

Height

0.7

Diameter

5.6

Description

CIRCULAR RED BUTTON WITH IMAGE OF JAPANESE WOMAN AT CENTER WITH "REDRESS FOR JAPANESE CANADIANS" AROUND EDGE. ALSO HAS JAPANESE CHARACTERS.

Subjects

PERSONAL SYMBOL

Historical Association

ASSOCIATIONS

History

BUTTON BELONGED TO A MEMBER OF DONOR'S FAMILY DURING THE 1980'S WHEN THE JAPANESE CANADIAN COMMUNITY WAS WORKING FOR REDRESS FROM THE CANADIAN GOV'T FOR THEIR POOR TREATEMENT OF THE JAPANESE COMMUNITY DURING WORLD WAR TWO. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.

Catalogue Number

P19970041345

Acquisition Date

1997-01

Collection

Museum

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