CHAIN, KEY
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- JAPANESE NORTH AMERICAN MISSION COMMEMORATIVE
- Materials
- BRASS
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041620
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- JAPANESE NORTH AMERICAN MISSION COMMEMORATIVE
- Date
- 1977
- Materials
- BRASS
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.2
- Length
- 7.1
- Width
- 3.3
- Description
- CIRCULAR BRASS MEDALLION ON BRASS LOOP. RAISED ON OBVERSE OF MEDALLION IS EMBLEM OF SIX PAIRS OF FOLDED HANDS IN CIRCULAR PATTERN AROUND A CROSS. RAISED ALONG EDGE IS "JAPANESE CHRISTIAN MISSION IN NORTH AMERICA 1877 1977" AND A NUMBER OF JAPANESE CHARACTERS. RAISED ON REVERSE OF MEDALLION IS "OUR 100TH YEAR".
- Subjects
- PERSONAL GEAR
- Historical Association
- RELIGION
- COMMEMORATIVE
- History
- KEY CHAIN WAS ACQUIRED BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, WHO WAS VERY ACTIVE IN THE JAPANESE CHRISTIAN MISSION. 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
- P19970041620
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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