TOASTER
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- STEEL, BAKELITE, WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041528
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- STEEL, BAKELITE, WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 19.3
- Length
- 22.1
- Width
- 11.2
- Description
- RECTANGULAR STEEL TOASTER HAS PINCHED AND NARROW TOP, ROUNDED BASE AND SIDES WHICH FOLD DOWN OPEN. BLACK CYLINDRICAL BAKELITE HANDLES ARE FASTENED TO EDGE OF FOLD DOWN DOORS. ONE HANDLE IS MISSING AND OPPOSITE IS LOOSE. BODY IS MODERATELY RUSTED. STAMPED INTO BOTTOM IS "C.S.A. APP. #3669" AND "RELIANCE CAT. #620". ONE WOODEN FOOT IS MISSING.
- Subjects
- FOOD PROCESSING T&E
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- TOASTER WAS A HOUSEHOLD ITEM USED BY DONOR'S FAMILY, PURCHASED SHORTLY AFTER MOVING TO COALDALE. 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
- P19970041528
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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