QUILT

Description: SMALL PADDED QUILT WITH DOUBLE PATTERN. ONE SIDE IS LIGHT BLUE WITH WHITE STRIPES AND BLUE AND RED FLOWERS. OTHER SIDE OF QUILT IS PINK WITH WHITE CIRCULAR SPOTS THAT HAVE FLORAL PATTERN AT CENTER OF EACH. INTERSPERSED AMONG CIRCULAR SHAPES ARE RECTANGULAR SHAPES MADE FROM SMALL BLACK CIRCLES.

History: DONOR RELATES THAT THE BLANKET WAS MADE BY HER MOTHER SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVING IN 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. UPDATE 16 JUNE 2014: ON 4-5 JUNE 2014, ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM (RAM) CURATOR LUCIE HEINS VISITED THE GALT AS PART OF THE RAM’S INITIATIVE TO DOCUMENT QUILTS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS IN ALBERTA. THE DOCUMENTATION WORK IS KNOWN AS THE ALBERTA QUILT PROJECT. IN ADDITION TO HEINS’ PROGRAM, THE DATA IS ALSO SUPPOSED TO BE SUBMITTED AS PART OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE NORTH AMERICAN QUILT INDEX. THIS QUILT HAS BEEN ASSIGNED NO. “AQP 2-0264” BY THE ALBERTA QUILT PROJECT.