PENCIL, MECHANICAL
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- PLASTIC, STEEL, LEAD
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041414
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- PLASTIC, STEEL, LEAD
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Length
- 13.8
- Width
- 0.9
- Description
- CYLINDRICAL EIGHT SIDED RED PLASTIC MECHANICAL PENCIL WITH STEEL POCKET CLIP WITH "SCRIPTO" ENGRAVED INTO IT. CLIP, ERASER BRACKET AND PENCIL TIP ARE CORRODED. ERASER HAS HARDENED.
- Subjects
- WRITTEN COMMUNICATION T&E
- Historical Association
- BUSINESS
- History
- PENCIL WAS USED BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, WHO CORRESPONDED REGULARLY WITH PARISHIONERS, MISSIONARIES AND OTHERS AROUND THE WORLD HE HAD MET. HE ALSO PUBLISHED NEWSLETTERS AND NEWSPAPERS FOR THE JAPANESE CANADIAN COMMUNITY. THIS IS ONE OF MANY ITEMS HE POSSESSED TO PERFORM THESE TASKS. 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
- P19970041414
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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