COVER, PILLOW
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- SOUVENIR CUSHION COVER
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- NYLON, COTTON
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041721
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- SOUVENIR CUSHION COVER
- Date Range From
- 1940
- Date Range To
- 1950
- Materials
- NYLON, COTTON
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.5
- Length
- 50
- Width
- 50
- Description
- SQUARE BURGUNDY NYLON PILLOW COVER WITH GOLD COLOURED NYLON TASSELS. STAMPED INTO MIDDLE IS GOLD COLOURED EMBLEM OF A MAPLE LEAF WITH KING'S CROWN AT TOP AND "CANADIAN ARMY TRAINING CENTRE 110 VERNON" ON IT. TOP RIGHT CORNER HAS SEVERAL UNIDENTIFIED DARK STAINS. BACKING IS BURGUNDY COTTON FABRIC. ONE INCH PORTION OF TASSEL ALONG BOTTOM EDGE IS MISSING.
- Subjects
- HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORY
- Historical Association
- COMMEMORATIVE
- History
- CUSHION COVER WAS ACQUIRED AS A SOUVENIR BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, WHO TRAVELLED EXTENSIVELY AS A MISSIONARY AND SPEAKER. 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
- P19970041721
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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