by Joanna Dermenjian | Jun 18, 2026 | Article, Artifacts, GoFundMe Fundraising Campaign, History, Letter
As we continue the project to return the The Anna Mansi WWII CRCQ collection to Canada, to find a permanent home for these forty quilts, we are reminded that textiles carry memory, emotions and relationships. Sometimes, the sentiments are specific, such as a mother...
by Joanna Dermenjian | May 20, 2026 | Article, GoFundMe Fundraising Campaign
On May 13, we launched a GoFundMe Campaign to assist in fundraising to repatriate 40 quilts, made voluntarily by Canadian women on the home front during the Second World War. Of the over 400,000 quilts recorded sent by the Canadian Red Cross, these 40 surviving quilts...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Jun 30, 2025 | Artifacts, History, Research
I know – the image is blurry. But you get the gist of it. This embroidery pattern was published in Canadian newspapers in 1947. The Canadian National Exhibition or ‘CNE’, was reopening in 1947, after being closed from 1942-46 when the grounds were in...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Nov 4, 2024 | Article
I am working on an article about the Canadian 1960’s quilt revival. While researching primary sources last week, I came across a 1966 article about a quilting group that was celebrating their 50th anniversary. Yes, that’s correct – the first meeting of the Brandon...
by Joanna Dermenjian | Jun 25, 2024 | Article, Artifacts, History
“My 100-year-old friend Joan died recently, and I am trying to sort her belongings. I have a quilt that was given to her during the war; she told me that it had come from Canada and that when she first had it there was a note saying where it had come from. It is in...
