TRAY, DESK

Description: VERTICAL FREE STANDING WOOD DIVIDER WITH DRAWER ON BOTTOM RIGHT SIDE. DRAWER HAS CURVED STEEL HANDLE NAILED TO IT. VERTICAL DIVIDERS HAVE ROUNDED TOP CORNERS. ONE DIVIDER ABOVE DRAWER IS MISSING. TRAY IS WORN AND JOINTS ARE LOOSE.

History: DESK TRAY WAS BROUGHT TO COALDALE FROM VANCOUVER BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, WHO USED IT TO HOLD MAIL AND OTHER PAPERS ON HIS DESK. 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. FROM AUGUST 29 TO 31, 2011 COLLECTIONS TECHNICIAN KEVIN MACLEAN INTERVIEWED THE DONOR, JOY KOGAWA, ABOUT HER MEMORIES ASSOCIATED WITH SPECIFIC OBJECTS THAT SHE DONATED IN 1997. OF THIS ARTIFACT, KOGAWA SAID: “[THIS IS] A LITTLE DESKTOP THING, IT SAT ON [MY FATHER’S] DESK IN COALDALE… IT WAS ALWAYS FILLED WITH STUFF.” SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.