PIN, LAPEL
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- SCOUT PIN
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- BRASS
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041635
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- SCOUT PIN
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- BRASS
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.4
- Length
- 3.9
- Width
- 1
- Description
- BRASS PIN HAS FLEUR-DE-LIS SHAPE WITH SPREAD EAGLE IN MIDDLE. MOLDED SCROLL ACROSS BOTTOM HAS "BE PREPARED" RAISED ON IT.
- Subjects
- ADORNMENT
- Historical Association
- ASSOCIATIONS
- History
- LAPEL PIN WAS FOUND AMONG THE BELONGINGS OF DONOR'S MOTHER, LOIS NAKAYAMA. PIN PROBABLY BELONGED TO DONOR'S BROTHER, TIMOTHY, WHO WAS ACTIVE IN SCOUTS. 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
- P19970041635
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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