CHAIN, KEY

Description: .1) CASE. RECTANGULAR WHITE PLASTIC BASE WITH MOLDED SLOT FOR KEYCHAIN. HAS CLEAR RECTANGULAR PLASTIC COVER. .2) KEY CHAIN. 10.3CM LONG KEY CHAIN HAS STAINLESS STEEL CHAIN AND LOOP FASTENED TO CIRCULAR SILVER MEDALLION. OBVERSE HAS RAISED IMAGE OF THE NATION OF BRASIL WITH "70" AND A STEAM SHIP OVER TOP IT. RAISED AROUND EDGE IS "COMEMORACO DOS 70M ANOS DE IMIGRACAO JAPONESA NO BRASIL 1908-1978". REVERSE OF MEDALLION HAS RAISED EMBLEM OF A JAPANESE COUPLE WITH JAPANESE LETTERING.

History: MEDALLION KEYCHAIN WAS BROUGHT BACK TO CANADA FROM BRAZIL IN 1978 BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, WHO TRAVELLED EXTENSIVELY AS A MISSIONARY. 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.