PATCH

Description: .1) PATCH. 5.5CM X 4.4CM YELLOW PATCH WITH BROWN STITCHING. PATCH IS SHAPED LIKE THE PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN AND HAS EMBROIDERED HUMAN FIGURE WITH WHEEL ON HIS SHOULDERS. "BOY SCOUTS JUBILEE" IS EMBROIDERED ACROSS TOP AND "SASKATCHEWAN" IS ACROSS BOTTOM IN BANNER MOTIF. .2) PATCH. 2.7CM X 2.0CM RECTANGULAR YELLOW PATCH WITH "2" EMBROIDERED IN GREEN AT CENTER.

History: PATCHES BELONGED TO DONOR'S BROTHER, TIMOTHY, WHO WAS AN AVID PARTICIPANT IN THE CANADIAN SCOUTING PROGRAM FOR MANY YEARS. 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. 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.