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Description: BLACK RECTANGULAR WOOL KNIT BAG WITH COLOURFUL RED, ORANGE, GREEN AND YELLOW STRIPES KNITTED HORIZONTALLY ACROSS MIDDLE OF BAG. BAG ALSO HAS TWO TWISTED BLACK YARN HANDLES. BLACK BUTTON AND LOOP CLOSING.

History: HAND BAG BELONGED TO DONOR'S MOTHER, LOIS NAKAYAMA. POSSIBLY MADE BY MRS. NAKAYAMA, THE BAG WAS BROUGHT TO ALBERTA FROM VANCOUVER VIA SLOCAN CITY. 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. FROM AUGUST 29 TO 31, 2011 COLLECTIONS TECHNICIAN KEVIN MACLEAN INTERVIEWED THE DONOR, JOY KOGAWA, ABOUT HER MEMORIES ASSOCIATED WITH SPECIFIC OBJECTS THAT SHE DONATED IN 1997. OF THIS ARTIFACT, KOGAWA SAID: “THIS IS THE OLD WOOL BAG THAT WE HAD FOREVER, AND YOU CAN SEE THE HANDLES ARE WORN OUT… I THINK IT CAME FROM VANCOUVER… THIS WAS [MY MOTHER’S] GROCERY BAG, HER EVERYTHING BAG.” SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.