PIN
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- IDENTIFCATION PIN
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- BRASS
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041501
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- IDENTIFCATION PIN
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- BRASS
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.3
- Length
- 5.1
- Width
- 4
- Description
- RECTANGULAR BRASS PIN WITH RAISED RELIEF IMAGE OF A MISSION AND A HARVEST BASKET OVER A MODERN CITY. RAISED ACROSS TOP IS "LOS ANGELES COUNTY" AND ACROSS BOTTOM IS "HOME OF HOSPITALITY". PAPER LABEL AT MIDDLE HAS "REV. G. NAKAYAMA CANADA" TYPEWRITTEN ON IT.
- Subjects
- PERSONAL SYMBOL
- Historical Association
- BUSINESS
- History
- THIS PIN WAS THE NAME TAG FOR DONOR'S FATHER WHEN ON A TRIP TO LOS ANGELES. REV. NAKAYAMA TRAVELLED EXTENSIVELY AS A MISSIONARY AND SPEAKER. 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
- P19970041501
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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