PEN
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- NIB PEN
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- BRASS, WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041415
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- NIB PEN
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- BRASS, WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Length
- 18.7
- Width
- 0.9
- Description
- TAPERED WOOD PEN WITH BARK COVERING THAT HAS BRASS NIB WITH "SUPERPOINT" ETCHED INTO IT. NIB IS STAINED WITH BLUE INK.
- Subjects
- WRITTEN COMMUNICATION T&E
- Historical Association
- BUSINESS
- History
- PEN 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
- P19970041415
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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