WRISTWATCH
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- STAINLESS STEEL, GLASS
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041473
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1970
- Date Range To
- 1980
- Materials
- STAINLESS STEEL, GLASS
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.9
- Width
- 2.6
- Diameter
- 5
- Description
- STAINLESS STEEL ELASTIC LINKED BAND WITH WHITE FACE THAT HAS BLACK NUMBERS, RED SECOND HAND AND "TIMEX" AT CENTER. WINDING WHEEL IS ON RIGHT SIDE. BACK HAS "STAINLESS STEEL BACK" ETCHED INTO IT.
- Subjects
- TIMEKEEPING T&E
- Historical Association
- PERSONAL CARE
- History
- WRISTWATCH BELONGED TO DONOR'S MOTHER, LOIS NAKAYAMA. MENTIONED IN DONOR'S NOVEL "OBASAN". 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
- P19970041473
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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