MEDAL, COMMEMORATIVE

Description: .1) SQUARE BLUE PLASTIC COVERED FOLDER WITH PLASTIC STRAP CLOSURE AND GOLD COLORED EMBOSSING ON COVER. COVER HAS CIRCULAR GOLD LOGO WITH WAVES AND "EXPO '75" BENEATH IT. JAPANESE CHARACTERS ARE ALONG BOTTOM EDGE. INSIDE HAS TWO CLEAR PLASTIC POCKETS. .2) MEDALLION CASE. 5.6CM (D) X 1.3CM (H) CIRCULAR CLEAR PLASTIC CASE WITH HINGED ARM ON BACK AND REMOVABLE COVER. .3) MEDALLION. 5.0CM (D) X 0.4CM CIRCULAR BRONZE MEDALLION. OBVERSE HAS EMBLEM OF AN OIL PLATFORM ON THE OCEAN WITH EXPO '75 LOGO ABOVE AND JAPANESE CHARACTERS ALONG BOTTOM EDGE. REVERSE HAS ASIAN STYLE EMBLEM OF A SITTING LION. .4) COMMEMORATIVE BOOKLET. 6.4CM X 5.9CM BLUE PAPER BOOKLET WITH CIRCULAR GOLD LOGO WITH WAVES ON FRONT OVER TOP "EXPO '75". BOOKLET IS IN JAPANESE. .5) INSTRUCTION PAPER. 7.1CM X 6.9CM HEAVY WHITE SQUARE PIECE OF PAPER WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FOR USE OF MEDALLION CASE. ALL IN JAPANESE.

History: COMMEMORATIVE MEDALLION WAS ACQUIRED BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA ON HIS TRIP TO THE WORLD EXPO IN JAPAN IN 1975. 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.