BLANKET
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- WOOL
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041667
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- WOOL
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.4
- Length
- 171
- Width
- 161.5
- Description
- SQUARE GREEN AND PINK DOUBLE WEAVE WOOL BLANKET. ONE SIDE IS LIME GREEN, THE OTHER IS LIGHT PINK. GREEN WOOL STITCHING ALONG CLOSED ENDS IS FRAYING. SOME FADING OF COLOUR WHERE BLANKET HAS BEEN FOLDED.
- Subjects
- BEDDING
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- BLANKET FOUND AMONG THE BELONGINGS OF DONOR'S PARENTS, REV. G.G. AND LOIS NAKAYAMA. DONOR RELATES THAT SHE REMEMBERS USING THE BLANKET AT SLOCAN. 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
- P19970041667
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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