BOX
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- OFFERING BOX
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- WOOD, PAPER
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041624
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- OFFERING BOX
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- WOOD, PAPER
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 5.3
- Length
- 8.7
- Width
- 5.9
- Description
- RECTANGULAR PLAIN WOOD BOX WITH MEDIUM FINISH AND SLOT CUT IN TOP. BOTTOM HAS HOLE CUT AND IS COVERED WITH BROWN PAPER.
- Subjects
- CEREMONIAL ARTIFACT
- Historical Association
- RELIGION
- History
- OFFERING BOX WAS USED BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, IN HIS CHURCHES IN VANCOUVER AND COALDALE. POSSIBLY A SUNDAY SCHOOL OFFERING BOX. 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
- P19970041624
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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