BLANKET
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- BABY BLANKET
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- WOOL
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041722
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- BABY BLANKET
- Date Range From
- 1930
- Date Range To
- 1940
- Materials
- WOOL
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.3
- Length
- 95
- Width
- 85
- Description
- RECTANGULAR CREAM COLOURED KNIT WOOL BLANKET. SQUARE PANEL AT CENTER HAS ZIG-ZAG STITCHING. KNIT AROUND EDGES HAS WAVE PATTERN.
- Subjects
- BEDDING
- Historical Association
- DOMESTIC
- History
- BABY BLANKET WAS USED BY DONOR'S MOTHER WITH HER CHILDREN. DONOR RELATES THAT WHEN THE FAMILY CHILDREN WERE TOO OLD FOR THE BLANKET HER MOTHER USED IT AS A SHAWL. 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
- P19970041722
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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