BUTTON
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- MAPLE RIDGE REUNION BUTTON
- Materials
- PLASTIC, PAPER, ALUMINUM
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041491
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- MAPLE RIDGE REUNION BUTTON
- Date
- 1982
- Materials
- PLASTIC, PAPER, ALUMINUM
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.8
- Diameter
- 5.6
- Description
- CIRCULAR WHITE BUTTON WITH RED STRAWBERRY DESIGN ON FRONT. BUTTON READS "MAPLE RIDGE PITT MEADOWS REUNION 1942-82" AND HAS "REV. GOICHI NAKAYAMA" HAND PRINTED ACROSS MIDDLE IN BLACK INK.
- Subjects
- PERSONAL SYMBOL
- Historical Association
- COMMEMORATIVE
- History
- BUTTON WAS NAME TAG FOR DONOR'S FATHER WHO ATTENDED A REUNION OF JAPANESE CANADIANS WHO WERE RELOCATED DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. 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
- P19970041491
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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